143 Quotes by Stephen Leacock

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

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.

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.

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.

Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.

Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.