"You cannot depict love inside a frame of……" — Stephen Leacock
"You cannot depict love inside a frame of fact. It needs a mist to dissolve in."
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82 Quotes by Stephen Leacock
Stephen Leacock has 82 quotes on this site.
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It may be those who do most, dream most.
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If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little…
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Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey…
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In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked.
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In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.
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Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing…
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Chess is one long regret.
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In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations…
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Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo,…
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A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing…
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Success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.
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The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing…
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More Depict Quotes
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
— Buffalo Bill
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The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the…
— Unknown Author
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Contention, especially violence, is not the way to deal with our problems. Unfortunately, television, videos, movies, and electronic games teach…
— Unknown Author
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To me photography can be simultaneously both a record and a mirror or window of self-expression the camera is generally…
— Unknown Author
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We do not wish to imitate nature, we do not wish to reproduce. We want to produce. We want to…
— Hans Arp
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I thrive on change. That's probably why my chord changes are weird, because chords depict emotions. They'll be going along…
— Joni Mitchell
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Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all,…
— Victor Hugo
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Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a…
— Ashley Montagu
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The average American child sees 20,000 murders in TV before reaching age 18. This is considered normal. Every community has…
— Rob Brezsny
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The object of a comedy is not to correct morals or ridicule the vices of society; no, a comedy should…
— Vissarion Belinsky
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Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
— David Lynch
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The inability to listen and to depict in the countenance what others have said has spoiled many a good actress.
— Unknown Author
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