Quotes by Laurence Sterne

So quickly sometimes has the wheel turned round, that many a man has lived to enjoy the benefit of that charity which his own piety projected.

— Laurence Sterne

Trust that man in nothing, who has not a conscience in every thing.

— Laurence Sterne

The best hearts are ever the bravest.

— Laurence Sterne

Grant me patience, just Heaven! 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

  ​ God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

— Laurence Sterne

Freethinkers are generally those that never think at all.

— Laurence Sterne