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Stephen Leacock Quotes(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Stephen_Leacock.jpg/220px-Stephen_Leacock.jpg)
An English-born Canadian economist, writer and humorist. Stephen Butler Leacock, FRSC (30 December 1869 – 28 March 1944) was an English-born Canadian economist, writer and humorist.
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It may be that those who do most dream most.
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You encourage a comic man too much and he gets silly.
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The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born.
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The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
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Life we learn too late is in the living in the tissue of every day and hour.
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Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl.
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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
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When actors begin to think it is time for a change. They are not fitted for it.
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Personally I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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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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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Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
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The British are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.
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Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
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The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
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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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A sportsman is a man who every now and then simply has to get out and kill something. Not that he's cruel. He wouldn't hurt a fly. It's not big enough.
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Any man will admit if need be that his sight is not good or that he cannot swim or shoots badly with a rifle but to touch upon his sense of humour is to give him mortal affront.
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In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead and use English for literature Scotch for sermons and American for conversation.
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I never realized that there was history close at hand beside my very own home. I did not realize that the old grave that stood among the brambles at the foot of our farm was history.
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The best definition of humour I know is: humour may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life and the artistic expression thereof. I think this is the best I know because I wrote it myself.
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Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it.