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Laurence Sterne, born on November 24, 1713, and died on March 18, 1768, was a prominent English novelist of the 18th century. He is best known for his novel 'Tristram Shandy', which is considered a pioneer of modern fiction and is renowned for its unique narrative style and profound insights into human nature.

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Famous Laurence Sterne Quotes

“Ten cooks' shops! ...and all within three minutes' driving! one would think that all the cooks in the world ...had said - Come, let us all go live at Paris: the French love good eating - they are all gourmands - we shall rank high.”

Thinking World Said Three Minutes Food Ten Eating Cooking Driving Cooks Paris Shops Culinary Good Eating French Love

Book:Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey: (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey: (A Modern Library E-Book)

“There are many ways of inducing sleep--the thinking of purling rills, or waving woods; reckoning of numbers; droppings from a wet sponge fixed over a brass pan, etc. But temperance and exercise answer much better than any of these succedaneums.”

Thinking Way Sleep Answers Numbers Exercise Woods Fixed Etc Wet Dropping Temperance Reckoning Sponges Brass

Author:Laurence Sterne

“Surely, 'tis one step towards acting well, to think worthily of our nature; and as in common life, the way to make a man honest, is, to suppose him soso here, to set some value upon ourselves, enables us to support the characterof generosity and virtue.”

Thinking Men Way Wells Character Values Common Acting Steps Support Virtue Honest Goodness Charity Generosity Common Life

Author:Laurence Sterne

“True Shandeism, think what you will against it, opens the heart and lungs, and like all those affections which partake of its nature, it forces the blood and other vital fluids of the body to run freely thro' its channels, and makes the wheel of life run long and chearfully round.”

Thinking Heart Long Body Running Force Blood Health Rounds Affection Entertainment Wheels Lungs Fluid Cheerfulness Wheel Of Life

Author:Laurence Sterne

“I know as well as any one, [the devil] is an adversary, whom if we resist, he will fly from us--but I seldom resist him at all; from a terror, that though I may conquer, I may still get a hurt in the combat--soinstead of thinking to make him fly, I generally fly myself.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Wells May Stills Hurt Devil Terror Temptation Conquer Combat Adversaries Irreverence

Book:THE

Source: THE

“We often think ourselves inconsistent creatures, when we are the furthest from it, and all the variety of shapes and contradictory appearances we put on, are in truth but so many different attempts to gratify the same governing appetite.”

Thinking Different Shapes Creatures Appearance Variety Appetite Contradictory Governing Inconsistent

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Laurence Sterne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Laurence Sterne (Illustrated)

“Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.”

Thinking Writing May Different Names Talking Mines Conversation Different Names

Author:Laurence Sterne

“So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse 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?”

Thinking Men Long Peace Behinds Praying Kings Get Up Hobbies Highways Eccentric Eccentricity

Author:Laurence Sterne

“Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.”

Thinking Infidelity Freethinker

Book:The works of Laurence Sterne

Source: The works of Laurence Sterne

“An interesting difference between new and experienced stage managers is that the new stage manager thinks of running the show as the most difficult and most demanding part of the job, whereas the experienced stage manager thinks of it as the most relaxing part. Perhaps the reason is that experienced stage managers have built up work habits that make then so thoroughly prepared for the production phase that they [can] sit back during performances to watch that preparation pay off.”

“I often derive a peculiar satisfaction in conversing with the ancient and modern dead, — who yet live and speak excellently in their works. My neighbors think me often alone, — and yet at such times I am in company with more than five hundred mutes — each of whom, at my pleasure, communicates his ideas to me by dumb signs — quite as intelligently as any person living can do by uttering of words.”

Thinking Persons Book Ideas Speak Can Do Pleasure Company Five Modern Hundred Ancient Satisfaction Communicate Neighbor Dumb Peculiar

Book:The Works of Lawrence Sterne: In Four Volumes, with a Life of the Author, Written by Himself

Source: The Works of Lawrence Sterne: In Four Volumes, with a Life of the Author, Written by Himself