Quotes by : Stephen Leacock

Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in....

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

The best definition of humour I know is: humour may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities....

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

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty....

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and....

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

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

It may be that those who do most dream most.

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