Laurence Sterne Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: November 24, 1713 - March 18, 1768
Birthday: November 24
Death: March 18
I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than of a person who could be capable, in any instance, of the former vice. Under meanness, I comprehend dishonesty; under dishonesty, ingratitude; under ingratitude, irreligion; and under this latter, every species of vice and immorality in human nature.
topic: Vices, Dishonesty, Murder, Irreligion, Ingratitude
