Stephen Leacock Quotes

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itsel...

The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no t...

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and...

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Advertising - A judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it

The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born.

Lord Ronald said nothing he flung himself from the room flung himself upon his horse and rode madl...

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries...

In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead an...

Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl.

A half truth like half a brick is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries...

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, ...

The British are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up...

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expec...

Any man will admit if need be that his sight is not good or that he cannot swim or shoots badly wit...

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about f...

I never realized that there was history close at hand beside my very own home. I did not realize t...

You encourage a comic man too much and he gets silly.

When actors begin to think it is time for a change. They are not fitted for it.

I'm a great believer in luck. I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

The best definition of humour I know is: humour may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the in...

It may be that those who do most dream most.

Life we learn too late is in the living in the tissue of every day and hour.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.

Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in...

A sportsman is a man who every now and then simply has to get out and kill something. Not that he'...

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.