“ Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. Stephen Leacock
“ Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only c… Stephen Leacock
“ I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. Stephen Leacock
“ 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 to touch upon his sense of humour is to give him mortal affront. Stephen Leacock
“ 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
“ I never realized that there was history close at hand beside my very own home. I did not realize that the old grave that stood among the brambles at the foot of our farm was history. 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
“ Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect. Stephen Leacock
“ It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy. Stephen Leacock
“ It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required. Stephen Leacock
“ The best definition of humour I know is: humour may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life and the artistic expression thereof. I think this is the best I know because I… Stephen Leacock
“ The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. Stephen Leacock
“ Lord Ronald said nothing he flung himself from the room flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions. Stephen Leacock
“ Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. Stephen Leacock
“ In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead and use English for literature Scotch for sermons and American for conversation. Stephen Leacock
