Quote #1

Special Correspondence. I learn from a very high authority, whose name I am not at liberty to mention, (speaking to me at a place which I am not allowed to indicate and in a language which I am forbidden to use)--that Austria-Hungary is about to take a diplomatic step of the highest importance. What this step is, I am forbidden to say. But the consequences of it--which unfortunately I am pledged not to disclose--will be such as to effect results which I am not free to enumerate.

More from Stephen Leacock

  1. 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 b…
  2. The rushing of his spirit from its prison-house was as rapid as a hunted cat passing over a garden fence.
  3. My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.
  4. 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'…
  5. The Lord said 'Let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born.
  6. With the thermometer at 30 below zero and the wind behind him, a man walking on Main Street in Winnipeg knows which side of him is which.
  7. Of course, Pupkin would never have thought of considering himself on an intellectual par with Mallory Tompkins. That would have been ridicu…
  8. Many of my friends are under the impression that I write these humorous nothings in idle moments when the wearied brain is unable to perfor…

All Stephen Leacock quotes