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30 quotes by Stephen Leacock

Stephen Leacock Born Stephen P. H Butler Leacock 30 December 1869 Swanmore, Hampshire, England Died 28 March 1944(1944-03-28) (aged 74) Toronto, Ontario, Canada Language English Nationality Canadian Ethnicity Caucasian Citizenship Canadian subject Education Upper Canada College Alma mater University of Toronto University of Chicago Genre Humour Subject Sciences Notable works Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, Arcadian Adventures With...
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It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

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

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

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

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

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

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He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.

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There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.

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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.

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

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In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

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

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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.

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