Laurence Sterne: Quotes about the world

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“Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.”

Laurence Sterne book The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Source: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

“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.”

Laurence Sterne book A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

Paris.
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768)

“I am convinced, Yorick, continued my father, half reading and half discoursing, that there is a Northwest Passage to the intellectual world; and that the soul of man has shorter ways of going to work, in furnishing itself with knowledge and instruction, than we generally take with it.”

Laurence Sterne book The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Book V, Ch. 42.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

“Go poor Devil, get thee gone, why should I hurt thee? — This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.”

Laurence Sterne book The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Book II, Ch. 12 (Uncle Toby to the fly).
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

“"Pray, my dear," quoth my mother, "have you not forgot to wind up the clock?" — "Good G—!" cried my father, making an exclamation, but taking care to moderate his voice at the same time, — "Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question?"”

Laurence Sterne book The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Book I, Ch. 1.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

“Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, — though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, — the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!”

Laurence Sterne book The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Book III, Ch. 12.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

“I was at peace with the world before, and this finish’d the treaty with myself.”

Laurence Sterne book A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

Calais.
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768)