"Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me."
Tristram Shandy (orig. ed.). Vol. ii. chap. xii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Showing 1–12 of 12 entries
"Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me."
Tristram Shandy (orig. ed.). Vol. ii. chap. xii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Great wits jump."
Tristram Shandy (orig. ed.). Vol. iii. Chap. ix.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
""Our armies swore terribly in Flanders," cried my Uncle Toby, "but nothing to this.""
Tristram Shandy (orig. ed.). Vol. iii. Chap. xi.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"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!"
Tristram Shandy (orig. ed.). Vol. iii. Chap. xii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in; and the recording angel as he wrote it down dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever."
Tristram Shandy (orig. ed.). Vol. vi. Chap. viii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I am sick as a horse."
Tristram Shandy (orig. ed.). Vol. vii. Chap. xi.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
""They order," said I, "this matter better in France.""
Sentimental Journey. Page 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, "'T is all barren!""
In the Street. Calais.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb."
Maria.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
""Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught.""
The Passport. The Hotel at Paris.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The sad vicissitude of things."
Sermon xvi.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything."
Sermon xxvii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain