5 Laurence Sterne Quotes on Travel

Laurence Sterne quotes on travel

7. Whistled up to London, upon a Tom Fool's errand.

21. It had ever been the custom of the family, and by length of time was almost become a matter of common right, that the eldest son of it should have free ingress, egress, and regress into foreign parts before marriage, - not only for the sake of bettering his own private parts, by the benefit of exercise and change of so much air - but simply for the mere delectation of his fancy, by the feather put into his cap, of having been abroad.

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

34. I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, 'Tis all barren!

35. Tant pis and tant mieux, being two of the great hinges in French conversation, a stranger would do well to set himself right in the use of them before he gets to Paris.