Quotes & anectdotes from
the wise,
the foolish,
the courageous &
the drunk

Stephen Leacock Writer

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: Canada
  • Born: Dec 30, 1869
  • Died: Mar 28, 1944

Stephen P. H Butler Leacock, FRSC was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. Between the years 1910 and 1925, he was the most widely read English-speaking author in the world. He is known for his light humour along with criticisms of people's follies. The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour was named in his honour.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

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.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.