Author: Stephen Leacock

Quotes

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

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

- Stephen Leacock

It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

- Stephen Leacock

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

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

- Stephen Leacock

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

- Stephen Leacock

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

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

- Stephen Leacock

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

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

- Stephen Leacock

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

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

- 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.

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

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

- Stephen Leacock

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