Frases de Laurence Sterne
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Laurence Sterne fue un escritor y humorista irlandés.

✵ 24. noviembre 1713 – 18. marzo 1768
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“Alas, poor YORICK!”

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

“Un hombre que ríe nunca será peligroso.”

Fuente: [Ortega Blake] (2013), En Google Books https://books.google.es/books?hl=es&id=QJIAVIKP1dgC&q=sterne#v=snippet&q=sterne&f=false. Consultado el 15 de diciembre de 2019.

Laurence Sterne: Frases en inglés

“Now or never was the time.”

Laurence Sterne libro Vida y opiniones del caballero Tristram Shandy

Book IV, Ch. 31.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

“Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; —& they are the life, the soul of reading; — take them out of this book for instance, — you might as well take the book along with them.”

Laurence Sterne libro Vida y opiniones del caballero Tristram Shandy

Book I, Ch. 22.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

“He was within a few hours of giving his enemies the slip forever.”

Laurence Sterne libro Vida y opiniones del caballero Tristram Shandy

Book I, Ch. 12.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

“So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him — pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?”

Laurence Sterne libro Vida y opiniones del caballero Tristram Shandy

Book I, Ch. 7.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

“They order, said I, this matter better in France.”

Laurence Sterne libro A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

Fuente: A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768), Line 1.

“Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.”

Laurence Sterne libro Vida y opiniones del caballero Tristram Shandy

Book II, Ch. 11.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

“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 libro Vida y opiniones del caballero Tristram Shandy

Book III, Ch. 12.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

“As we jogg on, either laugh with me, or at me, or in short do any thing—only keep your temper.”

Laurence Sterne libro Vida y opiniones del caballero Tristram Shandy

Book I, Ch. 6 http://books.google.com/books?id=COoNAAAAQAAJ&q=%22as+we+jogg+on+either+laugh+with+me+or+at+me+or+in+short+do+any+thing+only+keep+your+temper%22&pg=PA19#v=onepage.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

“A man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad.”

Laurence Sterne libro Vida y opiniones del caballero Tristram Shandy

Book VII (1765), Ch. 2.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

“For every ten jokes, thou hast got a hundred enemies.”

Laurence Sterne libro Vida y opiniones del caballero Tristram Shandy

Book I, Ch. 12.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

“The Accusing Spirit which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blush'd as he gave it in; and the Recording Angel as he wrote it down, dropp'd a tear upon the word, and blotted it out forever.”

Laurence Sterne libro Vida y opiniones del caballero Tristram Shandy

Book VI (1761-1762), Ch. 8. Compare: "But sad as angels for the good man’s sin, Weep to record, and blush to give it in", Thomas Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, part ii, line 357.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

“I have got him fast hung up, quoth Didius to himself, upon one of the two horns of my dilemma — let him get off as he can.”

Laurence Sterne libro Vida y opiniones del caballero Tristram Shandy

Book IV (1761-1762), Ch. 26.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

“Great wits jump.”

Laurence Sterne libro Vida y opiniones del caballero Tristram Shandy

Book III (1761-1762), Ch. 9. Compare: "Great wits jump", John Byrom, The Nimmers; Earl of Buckingham, The Chances, act. iv, scene 1; "Good wits jump", Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, part II, ch. 38.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

“I am sick as a horse.”

Laurence Sterne libro Vida y opiniones del caballero Tristram Shandy

Book VII, Ch. 11.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

“Our armies swore terribly in Flanders, cried my uncle Toby, — but nothing to this.”

Laurence Sterne libro Vida y opiniones del caballero Tristram Shandy

For my own part, I could not have a heart to curse my dog so.
Book III, Ch. 11.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

“Go poor Devil, get thee gone, why should I hurt thee?”

Laurence Sterne libro Vida y opiniones del caballero Tristram Shandy

This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.
Book II, Ch. 12 (Uncle Toby to the fly).
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

“A man who laughs will never be dangerous.”

Laurence Sterne libro A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

The Passport, Versailles.
Original: (fr) Un homme qui rit, said the duke, ne sera jamais dangereux.
Fuente: A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768)

“A man my good Sir, has seldom an offer of kindness to make to a woman, but she has a presentiment of it some moments before.”

Laurence Sterne libro A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

The Remise, Calais.
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768)

“I was at peace with the world before, and this finish’d the treaty with myself.”

Laurence Sterne libro A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

Calais.
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768)