Laurence Sterne Quotes About Devil

Quotes about: Devil

• So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

  Laurence Sterne

  Joy, Devil, Literature

  Laurence Sterne (1996). “Tristram Shandy”, p.345, Wordsworth Editions

• 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

  Hurt, Devil, Gone

  'Tristram Shandy' (1759-67) bk. 2, ch. 12

• 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.

  Laurence Sterne

  Hurt, Thinking, Temptation

  Laurence Sterne (1823). ““The” Novels Of Sterne, Goldsmith, Dr. Johnson, Mackenzie, Horace Walpole, And Clara Reeve: 5”, p.251

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