Frases de Laurence Sterne

Laurence Sterne foi um escritor e clérigo anglicano irlandês, famoso pelo seu romance A Vida e as Opiniões do Cavalheiro Tristram Shandy.

Aos dez anos de idade, Sterne foi mandado para Halifax, na Inglaterra, para estudar. Anos mais tarde, estudou no Jesus College e se tornou pastor da Igreja Anglicana em Yorkshire, eventualmente se tornando pastor remunerado da Catedral de Iorque em 1733. O bisavô de Sterne fora ordenado arcebispo de Iorque em 1664.

"A Vida e as Opiniões do Cavalheiro Tristram Shandy" foi originalmente publicado em vários volumes, os dois primeiros aparecendo em 1759, e os demais no decorrer dos dez anos seguintes. Controverso, o livro teve reações dissonantes entre os escritores da época, mas o humor grosseiro foi bem aceito pela sociedade londrina. Hoje, o livro é tido como precursor do fluxo de consciência.

Mais tarde, Sterne publicou "Jornada Sentimental pela França e Itália" baseado em suas viagens pela Europa devido à tuberculose, além de diversos sermões.

"Tristram Shandy" faz uso de técnicas hostis ao leitor, como sequências de dezenas de asteriscos e páginas em branco. Unidos a esses elementos, com a falta de consistência do enredo e a ausência de uma conclusão satisfatória, Sterne consegue o efeito de paródia do romance como forma literária.

De especial interesse para leitores de língua portuguesa, A Vida e as Opiniões do Cavalheiro Tristram Shandy teve influência decisiva na obra de Machado de Assis, influência admitida livremente em Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas. Já a obra Viagem Sentimental mistura géneros e estilos, influenciando Viagens na minha terra de Almeida Garrett.

Sterne morreu em Londres. Seu corpo foi roubado após a morte, tendo sido assunto de uma aula de anatomia em Cambridge, antes de ser devolvido ao túmulo. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. Novembro 1713 – 18. Março 1768
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Laurence Sterne Frases famosas

“A solidão é a mãe da sabedoria.”

Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom
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Laurence Sterne frases e citações

Laurence Sterne: Frases em inglês

“What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.”

Variante: What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests himself in everything.

“Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.”

Laurence Sterne livro The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Book II, Ch. 17.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

“I begin with writing the first
sentence—and trusting to Almighty
God for the second.”

Laurence Sterne livro The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Fonte: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

“Human nature is the same in all professions.”

Laurence Sterne livro The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Fonte: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

“Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another?”

Laurence Sterne livro The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Fonte: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

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

Laurence Sterne livro The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Fonte: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

“I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.”

Laurence Sterne livro The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Book I (1760), Ch. 1.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

“God tempers the wind, said Maria, to the shorn lamb.”

Laurence Sterne livro A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

Maria. Compare: "Dieu mésure le froid à la brebis tondue" (translated: "God measures the cold to the shorn lamb"), Henri Estienne (1594), Prémices, etc, p. 47; "To a close-shorn sheep God gives wind by measure", George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum.
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768)

“I believe in my conscience I intercept many a thought which heaven intended for another man.”

Laurence Sterne livro The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Book VIII, Ch. 2.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

“Ho! 'tis the time of salads.”

Laurence Sterne livro The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Book VII, Ch. 17.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

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

Laurence Sterne livro The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Book II (1760), Ch. 3.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

“Our armies swore terribly in Flanders, cried my uncle Toby, — but nothing to this. — For my own part, I could not have a heart to curse my dog so.”

Laurence Sterne livro The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Book III, Ch. 11.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

“Hail, ye small, sweet courtesies of life! for smooth do ye make the road of it.”

Laurence Sterne livro A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

The Pulse, Paris.
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768)

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

Laurence Sterne livro A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

In the Street, Calais.
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768)

“Shall we be destined to the days of eternity, on holy-days, as well as working-days, to be showing the relics of learning, as monks do the relics of their saints — without working one — one single miracle with them?”

Laurence Sterne livro The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Book V (1761-1762), Ch. 1.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

“Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause — and of obstinacy in a bad one.”

Laurence Sterne livro The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Book I, Ch. 17.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

“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.”

Laurence Sterne livro A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

Montreuil.
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768)

“Go poor Devil, get thee gone, why should I hurt thee? — This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.”

Laurence Sterne livro The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Book II, Ch. 12 (Uncle Toby to the fly).
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

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

Laurence Sterne livro The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Book I, Ch. 16.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

“The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.”

Laurence Sterne livro The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Book I, Ch. 25.
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