Quote: Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions. [Stephen Leacock]
Quote: Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. [Stephen Leacock]
Quote: Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl. [Stephen Leacock]
Quote: Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets. [Stephen Leacock]
Quote: Newspapermen learn to call a murderer "an alleged murderer" and the King of England "the alleged King of England" to avoid libel suits. [Stephen Leacock]
Quote: Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect. [Stephen Leacock]
Quote: We think of the noble object for which the professor appears to-night, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor. [Stephen Leacock]
Quote: 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]
Quote: A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better. [Stephen Leacock]
Quote: A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something. [Stephen Leacock]
Quote: Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't. [Stephen Leacock]
Quote: 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. [Stephen Leacock]
Quote: Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort. [Stephen Leacock]
Quote: He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions. [Stephen Leacock]
Quote: I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. [Stephen Leacock]
Quote: 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]
Quote: In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies. [Stephen Leacock]
Quote: It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish. [Stephen Leacock]
Quote: It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it. [Stephen Leacock]
Quote: It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy. [Stephen Leacock]
Quote: Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so. [Stephen Leacock]
Quote: On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing. [Stephen Leacock]
Quote: Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. [Stephen Leacock]
Quote: The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born. [Stephen Leacock]
Quote: There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit. [Stephen Leacock]