Best Stephen Leacock Quotes
- Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will… Admit
- As for politics, well, it all seemed reasonable enough. When the Conservatives got in anywhere, [Judge] Pepperleigh laughed and enjoyed it, simply because it does… Absolutely
- Most people tire of a lecture in ten minutes; clever people can do it in five. Sensible people never go to lectures at all. But… All
- Too much has been said of the heroes of history-the strong men, the troublesome men; too little of the amiable, the kindly, the tolerant. Amiable
- I owe a lot to my teachers and mean to pay them back some day. Day
- Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof. Artistic
- If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library.… Begin
- It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it. Forgive
- It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy. Called
- The minute a man is convinced he is interesting, he isn't. Convinced
- The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world's books. Only the trouble is that the world doesn't read its books, it borrows… Acknowledged
- 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. Boy
- 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… Admit
- The attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man… Attempt
- The great man... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on his goloshes as… Across
- The classical scholars have kept alive the tradition of the superiority of the ancient languages -- a kaleidoscopic mass of suffixes and prefixes, supposed to… Alive
- How strange it is, our little procession of life! The child says, "When I am a big boy." But what is that? The big boy… Able
- You can never have international peace as long as you have national poverty. Inspirational
- The tears of childhood fall fast and easily, and evil be to him who makes them flow. Childhood
- Professors of theory merely hold post-mortems. Hold
- You cannot depict love inside a frame of fact. It needs a mist to dissolve in. Depict
- With the Great Detective, to think was to act, and to act was to think. Frequently he could do both together. Act
- Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it. Highest
- The road comes to an end just when it ought to be getting somewhere. The passengers alight, shaken and weary, to begin, all over again,… Alight
- The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears. Been
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