Quote

An atheist is more reclaimable than a papist, as ignorance is sooner cured than superstition.

Laurence Sterne

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Laurence Sterne
Age: 54 †
Born: 1713
Born: November 24
Died: 1768
Died: March 18
Autobiographer
Novelist
Religious
Writer
Cured
Superstition
Skepticism
Superstitions
Sooner
Atheist
Ignorance

More quotes by Laurence Sterne

Image
Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts.
Laurence Sterne
Image
Positiveness is a most absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.
Laurence Sterne
Image
So that the life of a writer, whatever he might fancy to the contrary, was not so much a state of composition, as a state of warfare and his probation in it, precisely that of any other man militant upon earth,--both depending alike, not half so much upon the degrees of his WIT--as his RESISTANCE.
Laurence Sterne
Image
The world is ashamed of being virtuous.
Laurence Sterne
Image
There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.
Laurence Sterne
Image
It is sweet to feel by what fine spun threads our affections are drawn together.
Laurence Sterne
Image
Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand.
Laurence Sterne
Image
There are few instances of the exercise of particular virtues which seem harder to attain to, or which appear more amiable and engaging in themselves, than those of moderation and the forgiveness of injuries.
Laurence Sterne
Image
Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers?
Laurence Sterne
Image
We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.
Laurence Sterne
Image
I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
Laurence Sterne
Image
Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question?
Laurence Sterne
Image
Any one may do a casual act of good-nature but a continuation of them shows it a part of the temperament.
Laurence Sterne
Image
What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!
Laurence Sterne
Image
Look into the world--how often do you behold a sordid wretch, whose straight heart is open to no man's affliction, taking shelterbehind an appearance of piety, and putting on the garb of religion, which none but the merciful and compassionate have a title to wear.
Laurence Sterne
Image
Human nature is the same in all professions.
Laurence Sterne
Image
An English man does not travel to see English men.
Laurence Sterne
Image
In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them.
Laurence Sterne
Image
There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.
Laurence Sterne
Image
A man who values a good night's rest will not lie down with enmity in his heart, if he can help it.
Laurence Sterne