Laurence Sterne Quotes About Passion

Quotes about: Passion

• Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

  Laurence Sterne

  Passion, Literature, Return

• If ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another.

  Laurence Sterne

  Passion, Mean, Action

  'A Sentimental Journey' (1768) 'Montriul'

• Madness is consistent; which is more than can be said for poor reason. Whatever may be the ruling passion at the time continues equally so throughout the whole delirium, though it should last for life. Madmen are always constant in love; which no man in his senses ever was. Our passions and principles are steady in frenzy; but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

  Laurence Sterne

  Passion, Men, May

  Richard Griffith, Laurence Sterne (1794). “The Posthumous Works of Laurence Sterne: ...”

• The great end of all religionis to purify our hearts--and conquer our passions--and in a word, to make us wiser and better men--better neighbours--better citizens--and better servants of GOD.

  Laurence Sterne

  Passion, Heart, Character

• I know not whether the remark is to our honour or otherwise, that lessons of wisdom have never such power over us, as when they are wrought into the heart, through the ground-work of a story which engages the passions: Is it that we are like iron, and must first be heated before we can be wrought upon?

  Laurence Sterne

  Passion, Heart, Iron

  Laurence Sterne, James P. Browne (1873). “The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author”, p.217, London : Bickers, H. Sotheran

• Ye whose clay-cold heads and luke-warm hearts can argue down or mask your passions--tell me, what trespass is it that man should have them?... If nature has so wove her web of kindness, that some threads of love and desire are entangled with the piece--must the whole web be rent in drawing them out?

  Laurence Sterne

  Kindness, Passion, Heart

  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.339

• When a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion,--or, in other words, when his HOBBY-HORSE grows head- strong,--farewell cool reason and fair discretion.

  Laurence Sterne

  Strong, Horse, Farewell

  Laurence Sterne (2013). “3 Books by Laurence Sterne”, p.73, eBookIt.com

• Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

  Laurence Sterne

  Wisdom, Passion, Heart

• [I have] been in love with one princess or another almost all my life, and I hope I shall go on so, till I die, being firmly persuaded, that if ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another.

  Laurence Sterne

  Motivation, Princess, Mean

  'A Sentimental Journey' (1768) 'Montriul'

• First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of his creed. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbors, and where they separate, depend upon it, 'Tis for no other cause but quietness sake.

  Laurence Sterne

  Passion, Men, Atheism

  'Tristram Shandy' (1759-67) bk. 2, ch. 17

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