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Stephen Leacock was a renowned Canadian writer known for his humor and satire. His works, which extensively covered social commentary and satirical novels, have had a profound impact on later generations.

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Famous Stephen Leacock Quotes

“The minute a man is convinced he is interesting, he isn't.”

Men Wisdom Interesting Minutes Convinced

Author:Stephen Leacock

“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.”

Ifs Men Needs Giving Humour Sight Mortals Swim Rifles Affront

Book:Feast of Stephen

Source: Feast of Stephen

“The attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man to jail for eating cucumber salad.”

Ifs Men Law Eating Criminals Silly Beer Jail Consumption Salad Drunkenness Cucumbers

Author:Stephen Leacock

“The great man... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on his goloshes as he passes.”

Men Walks Feet Century Greatness Mark Great Men Over It

Author:Stephen Leacock

“You know, many a man realizes late in life that if when he was a boy he had known what he knows now, instead of being what he is he might be what he won't; but how few boys stop to think that if they knew what they don't know instead of being what they will be, they wouldn't be?”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Might Realizing Known Boys Late

Book:Literary Lapses

Source: Literary Lapses

“A barber is by nature and inclination a sport. He can tell you at what exact hour the ball game is to begin, can foretell its issue without losing a stroke of the razor, and can explain the points of inferiority of all the players, as compared with the better men that he has personally seen elsewhere, with the nicety of a professional.”

Men Games Sports Hours Issues Player Losing Balls Elsewhere Strokes Inclination Inferiority Razors Better Man Ball Games Barbers Niceties

Book:Literary Lapses

Source: Literary Lapses

“Presently I shall be introduced as 'this venerable old gentleman' and the axe will fall when they raise me to the degree of 'grand old man'. That means on our continent any one with snow-white hair who has kept out of jail till eighty.”

Men Mean Fall White Hair Degrees Raises Snow Gentleman Jail Old Man Continents Eighty Snow White White Hair

Author:Stephen Leacock

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

Men Able Economy Knowing Honesty Trust Degrees Trust In God Entitled Dishonesty

Book:The social criticism of Stephen Leacock

Source: The social criticism of Stephen Leacock

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

Men Love Whole Girl Fear Mistake Marriage Economics Witty Wedding Funny Marriage Marrying Successful Marriage Dimples Witty Marriage Marrying Someone Marrying Her Love Mistake

Author:Stephen Leacock

“A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.”

Men Economy Now And Then Sportsman

Author:Stephen Leacock

“As for politics, well, it all seemed reasonable enough. When the Conservatives got in anywhere, [Judge] Pepperleigh laughed and enjoyed it, simply because it does one good to see a straight, fine, honest fight where the best man wins. When a Liberal got in, it made him mad, and he said so,-not, mind you; from any political bias, for his office forbid it,-but simply because one can't bear to see the country go absolutely to the devil.”

Men Mind Wells Doe Made Said Country Enough Political Fighting Winning Honest Judging Fine Bears Office Devil Mad Enjoyed Reasonable Laughed Bias

Author:Stephen Leacock

“Too much has been said of the heroes of history-the strong men, the troublesome men; too little of the amiable, the kindly, the tolerant.”

Men Littles Has Beens Said Strong Too Much Hero Troublesome Strong Man Amiable

Book:Essays and Literary Studies

Source: Essays and Literary Studies

About the Author

Born: December 30, 1869
Died: March 28, 1944
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 96

Books & Sources

Leacock on LifeRelated source material

Feast of StephenRelated source material

Literary LapsesRelated source material

Sunshine Sketches of a Little TownRelated source material

Frenzied FictionRelated source material

My Discovery of EnglandRelated source material

My Remarkable UncleRelated source material

On the Front Line of Life: Stephen Leacock : Memories and Reflections, 1935-1944Related source material

The Penguin Stephen LeacockRelated source material

The social criticism of Stephen LeacockRelated source material

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