Quote of the Day
Authors Categories Blog Quote Maker Videos
 

Laurence Sterne Quotes: Vanity bids all her sons be brave, and all her daughters chaste and courteous.
         

Vanity bids all her sons be brave, and all her daughters chaste and courteous.


Laurence Sterne
Check all other quotes by Laurence Sterne

Want to display this quote image on your website or blog? Simply copy and paste the below code on your website/blog.

Embed:

Format of this image is jpg. The width and height of image are 1200 and 630, repectively. This image is available for free to download.





Citation

Use the citation below to add this quote to your bibliography:


Styles:

×

MLA Style Citation


"Laurence Sterne Quotes." Quoteslyfe.com, 2024. Thu. 26 Dec. 2024. <https://www.quoteslyfe.com/quote/Vanity-bids-all-her-sons-be-brave-807779>.





Check out


Other quotes of Laurence Sterne


Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.



A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.



I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.



Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.



Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.



The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.



There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.



Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.



Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.



So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.





Other quotes you may like


Each man lives in many worlds within different life.Mind can only see world in which it lived and located.

Each man lives in many worlds within different life.Mind can only see world in which it lived and located.



[Your] search for meaning in the world... can only really be fulfilled by the greater purpose that has sent [you] here in the first place.

[Your] search for meaning in the world... can only really be fulfilled by the greater purpose that has sent [you] here in the first place.




If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.

If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.



I have a large number of cassettes, but I look at them mainly for reference purposes.

I have a large number of cassettes, but I look at them mainly for reference purposes.



I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.

I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.



I have never suggested any principled difference between the natural and social sciences.

I have never suggested any principled difference between the natural and social sciences.



The lack of education and lack of skills don't hurt the unemployed, they hurt America and American business, making us less competitive in the global market.

The lack of education and lack of skills don't hurt the unemployed, they hurt America and American business, making us less competitive in the global market.



If I kind of like a guy, then I'm a fantastic flirt. But with a guy I truly like, I get painfully shy.

If I kind of like a guy, then I'm a fantastic flirt. But with a guy I truly like, I get painfully shy.



Two things of opposite natures seem to depend / One on another, as Logos depends / On Eros, day on night, the imagined On the real. / This is the origin of change.

Two things of opposite natures seem to depend / One on another, as Logos depends / On Eros, day on night, the imagined On the real. / This is the origin of change.




Quote Description


This page presents the quote "Vanity bids all her sons be brave, and all her daughters chaste and courteous.". Author of this quote is Laurence Sterne. This quote is about be brave, vanity, chaste, courteous, daughter, son,.