Uncle Toby Quotes & Sayings

Every Palestinian family feels the effects of the international embargo. But the more the pressure on the government grows, the more support we receive, both from the Palestinian street and from the Arab and Islamic world. — Ismail Haniyeh

I'll not hurt thee, says Uncle Toby, rising with the fly in his hand. Go, he says, opening the window to let it escape. Why should I hurt thee? This world is surely wide enough to hold both thee and me. — Laurence Sterne

The rich and the poor have met, God is their light. — John Ruskin

I like subordination, quoth my uncle Toby... — Laurence Sterne

Do you understand the theory of that affair? replied my father.
Not I, quoth my uncle.
- But you have some ideas, said my father, of what you talk about.
No more than my horse, replied my uncle Toby. — Laurence Sterne

For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty. — Virginia Woolf

Worship ... is evoked by Christ, through the Spirit, in such a way that He is the One who acts in us and through us, so that our worship becomes real worship in Spirit and in Truth. — J. B. Torrance

Hey Nash! You scared?'
'Terrified,mortified,petrified...stupefied by you! — Sylvia Nasar

I loved Midori. And I had probably known as much for a while. I had just been avoiding the conclusion for a very long time. — Haruki Murakami

Let love therefore be what it will, my Uncle Toby fell into it - And possibly, gentle reader, with such a temptation so wouldst thou: For never did thy eyes behold, or thy concupiscence covet, anything in this world more concupiscible than widow Wadman. — Laurence Sterne

Nothing is more uplifting in all of life than righteous anger. — Philip Roth