Laurence Sterne Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but find it out.

  Laurence Sterne

  Education, Father, Knowledge

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.173

• I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

  Laurence Sterne

  Mother, Father, Wish

  Tristram Shandy bk. 1, ch. 1 (1759 - 1767)

• Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers?

  Laurence Sterne

  Time, Father, Fit

  'Tristram Shandy' (1759-67) bk. 4, ch. 5

• If death, said my father, reasoning with himself, is nothing but the separation of the soul from the body;--and if it is true that people can walk about and do their business without brains,--then certes the soul does not inhabit there.

  Laurence Sterne

  Father, People, Soul

  Laurence Sterne (2013). “3 Books by Laurence Sterne”, p.121, eBookIt.com

• My father, whose way was to force every event in nature into an hypothesis, by which means never man crucified TRUTH at the rate he did.

  Laurence Sterne

  Truth, Father, Mean

  Laurence Sterne (2013). “3 Books by Laurence Sterne”, p.523, eBookIt.com

• There are a thousand unnoticed openings, continued my father, which let penetrating eye at once into a man's soul; and I maintain it, added he, that a man of sense does not lay down his hat in coming into a room, --or take it up in going out of it, but something escapes, which discovers him.

  Laurence Sterne

  Father, Eye, Men

  Laurence Sterne (1860). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters, Etc”, p.251

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