Laurence Sterne was one of the most renowned Irish novelists of the 18th century. He started off his writing career with poetry and published his first collection titled ‘The Unknown World, Verses Occasioned by Hearing a Pass-Bell. He further wrote a novel before the first notable work of his life, ‘The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy’. Its unusual story caught the attention of the masses which helped his popularity reach the elite class. This book was divided into nine volumes and was published in five installments. Although the first two volumes were a success but writers reviewed the content as boring and predicted it to be a failure. The character of this book was liked by the people because of its individuality. This book gradually attracted attention as each volume ended to increase the curiosity for the next one. The first eight volumes were published over a period of seven years and the last one came just before Sterne’s death. Here is a collection of sayings and quotations by the celebrated writer and Anglican clergyman. We have collected his quotes from his important books and writings. Read on a compilation of quotes and thoughts by Laurence Sterne which have been scanned from his writings, poems, sermons, memoirs, books and novels.
…so long as a man rides his Hobby-Horse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him,--pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?
Memiliki rasa hormat pada diri sendiri akan membimbing moral kita,
Memiliki rasa hormat terhadap orang lain akan menjaga sikap sopan santun kita.
Laurence Sterne
Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine;—they are the life, the soul of reading;—take them out of this book for instance,—you might as well take the book along with them;
The pulsations of the arteries along my fingers pressing across hers, told her what was passing within me:
she look’d down—a silence of some moments followed.
Laurence Sterne
Now there is nothing in this world I abominate worse, than to be interrupted in a story...
—My brother Toby, quoth she, is going to be married to Mrs. Wadman.
—Then he will never, quoth my father, be able to lie diagonally in his bed again as long as he lives.
I wish my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me;
 is but a different name for conversation. )
