Laurence Sterne Quotes


Ten cooks' shops! ...and all within three minutes' driving! one would think that all the cooks in the world ...had said - Come, let us all go live at Paris: the French love good eating - they are all gourmands - we shall rank high.


Citations

Sterne, Laurence. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, 1765.

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Laurence Sterne
Laurence Sterne
  • Born: November 24, 1713
  • Died: March 18, 1768
  • Nationality: British, Irish
  • Profession: Novelist, Clergyman

Laurence Sterne was an Anglo-Irish novelist and an Anglican cleric. 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 tuberculosis.