All Stephen Leacock Quotes
Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.
Stephen Leacock
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The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything.
Stephen Leacock
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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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Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.
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On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing.
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A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.
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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
Stephen Leacock in
Marriage
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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.
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Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
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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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Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
Stephen Leacock in
Imagination
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In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.
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Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
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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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