Stephen Leacock
Stephen Leacock
Stephen P. H Butler Leacock, FRSCwas a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. Between the years 1910 and 1925, he was the most widely read English-speaking author in the world. He is known for his light humour along with criticisms of people's follies. The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour was named in his honour...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 December 1869
CountryCanada
voice sorrow pathos
Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it.
theory professors posts
Professors of theory merely hold post-mortems.
long poverty international-peace
You can never have international peace as long as you have national poverty.
jail childhood village
You frequently ask, where are the friends of your childhood, and urge that they shall be brought back to you. As far as I am able to learn, those of your friends who are not in jail are still right there in your native village. You point out that they were wont to share your gambols, If so, you are certainly entitled to have theirs now.
fighting games lazy
The English are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.
food two squares
Any two meals at a boarding-house are together less than two square meals.
parent canada decided
My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.
wheat lord said
The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born
retirement autumn blow
A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it, and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That's retirement.
women average moral
In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked.
kings order suits
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer "an alleged murderer" and the King of England "the alleged King of England" in order to avoid libel suits.
politician
American politicians do anything for money... English politicians take the money and won't do anything.
golf play lifelong
I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.
not-good-enough facts enough
I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.