Laurence Sterne World Quotations

I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren--and so it is; and so is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.

The improbability of a malicious story serves but to help forward the currency of it, because it increases the scandal. So that, in such instances, the world is like the pious St. Austin, who said he believed some things because they were absurd and impossible.

Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question?

The best friends in the world may differ sometimes.

The world is ashamed of being virtuous.

Heaven be their resource who have no other but the charity of the world, the stock of which, I fear, is no way sufficient for the many great claims which are hourly made upon it.

I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pestered the world ever convince me to the contrary.

We get forwards in the world not so much by doing services, as receiving them: you take a withering twig, and put it in the ground; and then you water it, because you have planted it.

We are born to trouble; and we may depend upon it, whilst we live in this world, we shall have it, though with intermissions.