Quotes by Stephen Leacock

“Lord Ronald said nothing he flung himself from the room flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.”

“The British are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.”

“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.”

“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...”

“You encourage a comic man too much and he gets silly.”

“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.”

“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 onl...”

“Life we learn too late is in the living in the tissue of every day and hour.”

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

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

“A sportsman is a man who every now and then simply has to get out and kill something. Not that he's cruel. He wouldn't hurt a fly. It's not big enough.”

“It may be that those who do most dream most.”

“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.”

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

“When actors begin to think it is time for a change. They are not fitted for it.”

“I'm a great believer in luck. I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”

“Lord Ronald said nothing he flung himself from the room flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.”

“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.”

“You encourage a comic man too much and he gets silly.”

“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.”