Tristam Shandy Quotes

“Endless is the search of truth.”
― Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

“We lose the right of complaining sometimes by forbearing it”
― Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

“And in this, Sir, I am of so nice and singular a humour, that if I thought you was able to form the least judgment or probable conjecture to yourself, of what was to come in the next page, - I would tear it out of my book.”
― Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

“The desire of life and health is implanted in man's nature;- the love of liberty and enlargement is a sister-passion to it”
― Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

“I have begun a new book, on purpose that I might have room enough to explain the nature of the perplexities in which my uncle Toby was involved, from the many discourses and interrogations about the siege of Namur, where he received his wound.”
― Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

“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.”
― Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

“Read, read, read, read, my unlearned reader! read- or by the knowledge of the great saint Paraleipomenon- I tell you before-hand, you had better throw down the book at once; for without much reading, by which your reverence knows I mean much knowledge, you will no more be able to penetrate the moral of the next marbled page (motley emblem of my work!) than the world with all its sagacity has been able to unravel the many opinions, transactions, and truths which still lie mystically hid under the dark veil of the black one.”
― Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman