Stephen Leacock Short Quotes

25 Sourced Quotes

View all Stephen Leacock Quotes
Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.

Stephen Leacock
The Lord said "Let there be wheat" and Saskatchewan was born.

Stephen Leacock
Synopsis of Previous Chapters: There are no Previous Chapters.

Stephen Leacock
All physicists sooner or later say, "Let us call it Entropy..."

Stephen Leacock
My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.

Stephen Leacock
In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked.

Stephen Leacock
You can never have international peace as long as you have national poverty.

Stephen Leacock
You cannot depict love inside a frame of fact. It needs a mist to dissolve in.

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

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

Stephen Leacock
The tears of childhood fall fast and easily, and evil be to him who makes them flow.

Stephen Leacock
'What are you painting?' I said. 'Is it the Heavenly Child?' 'No' he said, 'It is a cow.'

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

Stephen Leacock
When Rutherford was done with the atom all the solidity was pretty well knocked out of it.

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

Stephen Leacock
There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike—information and wit.

Stephen Leacock
I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out', and meritus, 'so he ought to be'.

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

Stephen Leacock
The rushing of his spirit from its prison-house was as rapid as a hunted cat passing over a garden fence.

Stephen Leacock
A silk dress in four sections, and shoes with high heels that would have broken the heart of John Calvin.

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
With the Great Detective, to think was to act, and to act was to think. Frequently he could do both together.

Stephen Leacock
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Stephen Leacock
Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.

Stephen Leacock
Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with 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
I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.

Stephen Leacock
The parent who could see his boy as he really is, would shake his head and say: 'Willie is no good; I'll sell him.'

Stephen Leacock
The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears.

Stephen Leacock
Most people tire of a lecture in ten minutes; clever people can do it in five. Sensible people never go to lectures at all.

Stephen Leacock