Zitate von Laurence Sterne
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Die Werbung besteht aus einer Anzahl stiller Aufmerksamkeiten, die weder so stark hervortreten, daß sie alarmieren, noch so vage sind, daß sie nicht verstanden werden.
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Schriftsteller, Erzähler (England, 1713 - 1768).
Laurence Sterne · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Laurence Sterne wäre heute 310 Jahre, 4 Monate, 26 Tage oder 113.372 Tage alt.
Geboren am 24.11.1713 in Clonmel (Irland)
Gestorben am 18.03.1768 in London
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Weitere 66 Zitate von Laurence Sterne
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Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.
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My brother Toby, quoth she, is going to be married to Mrs Wadman. Then he will never, quoth my father, lie diagonally in his bed again as long as he lives.
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My uncle Toby would never offer to answer this by any other kind of argument, than that of whistling half a dozen bars of Lillabullero.
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Now hang it! quoth I, as I look'd towards the French coast a man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad.
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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!
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One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
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Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
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People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.
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Positiveness is a most absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.
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Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.
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The corregiescity of Corregio.
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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
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There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.
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There is a North-west passage to the intellectual World.
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There is no disputing about taste.
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They order, said I, this matter better in France.
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This sad vicissitude of things.
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To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners.
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To say a man is fallen in love, - or that he is deeply in love, - or up to the ears in love, - and sometimes even over head and ears in it, - carries an idiomatical kind of implication, that love is a thing below a man: - this is recurring again to Plato's opinion, which, with all his divinityship, - Ihold to be damnable and heretical: - and so much for that. Let love therefore be what it will, - my uncle Toby fell into it.
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True Shandeism, think what you will against it, opens the heart and lungs, and like all those affections which partake of its nature, it forces the blood and other vital fluids of the body to run freely through its channels, and makes the wheel of life run long and cheerfully round.
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