Stephen Leacock quotes Born: 12/30/1869 Died: 03/28/1944 Country: canada

• Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions. (Stephen Leacock) [lord/horse]
• Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. (Stephen Leacock) [advertising/science/human/intelligence]
• Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl. (Stephen Leacock) [love/mistake]
• Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets. (Stephen Leacock) [sun]
• Newspapermen learn to call a murderer "an alleged murderer" and the King of England "the alleged King of England" to avoid libel suits. (Stephen Leacock) [king/king]
• Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect. (Stephen Leacock) [men/trust]
• We think of the noble object for which the professor appears to-night, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor. (Stephen Leacock) [think/lord/willpower/willpower]
• The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything. (Stephen Leacock)
• A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better. (Stephen Leacock)
• A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something. (Stephen Leacock)
• Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't. (Stephen Leacock)
• Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it. (Stephen Leacock)
• Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort. (Stephen Leacock)
• He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions. (Stephen Leacock)
• I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. (Stephen Leacock)
• If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it. (Stephen Leacock)
• In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies. (Stephen Leacock)
• It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish. (Stephen Leacock)
• It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it. (Stephen Leacock)
• It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy. (Stephen Leacock)
• Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so. (Stephen Leacock)
• On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing. (Stephen Leacock)
• Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. (Stephen Leacock)
• The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born. (Stephen Leacock)
• There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit. (Stephen Leacock)
• We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor. (Stephen Leacock)
• What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years. (Stephen Leacock)
• Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult. (Stephen Leacock)

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