Laurence Sterne
Laurence Sterne
Laurence Sternewas an Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He wrote the novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, and also published many sermons, wrote memoirs, and was involved in local politics. Sterne died in London after years of fighting consumption...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 November 1713
CountryIreland
time would-be half
If time, like money, could be laid by while one was not using it, there might be some excuse for the idleness of half of the world, but yet not a full one. For even this would be such an economy as the living on a principal sum, without making it purchase interest.
truth endless
Endless is the search of truth.
tickets chance virtue
The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery of life.
wine writing flavor
Writings may be compared to wine. Sense is the strength, but wit the flavor.
vicissitudes
The sad vicissitude of things.
ideas people magic
You can't make theater happen without actors. The actor is the central ingredient in making theater happen. Audiences may come to theaters to see the work of stage managers, directors and producers, but the only people who can communicate theater magic to audiences, through ideas and emotions, are the actors. They are the only ones who can communicate this by themselves, and if necessary, they can get along without you. But you can't make theater without the actor.
want heat argument
Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.
silly men world
Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question?
father eye men
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.
nurse solitude loner
Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.
hypocrite criticism may
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!
forgiveness forgiving coward
A coward never forgives.
pain history soldier
The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
play theatre directors
The director is responsible for interpreting the playwright's work through the cast with the help of the staff. It is the director's artistic concept of the play that the cast, staff, and crew work to obtain.