Famous Quotes | Avoid all kinds of pleasantry...
Avoid all kinds of pleasantry and facetiousness in thy discourse with her, and ... suffer her not to look into Rabelais, or Scarron, or Don Quixote—
MThey are all books which excite laughter; and ... there is no passion so serious, as lust.
- Laurence Sterne
Attribution: Laurence Sterne (1713–1768), British author, clergyman. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1765), vol. 8, ch. 34, eds. Melvyn New and Joan New, University of Florida Press (1978). Walter Shandy’s advice on courtship.
Categories: Author, Clergyman, Courtship, Laughter, Passion
