Quote #31

Synopsis of Previous Chapters: There are no Previous Chapters.

More from Stephen Leacock

  1. Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
  2. The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
  3. The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world's books. Only the trouble is that the world doesn't read its books, it borrows a…
  4. On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing.
  5. The general idea, of course, in any first-class laundry is to see that no shirt or collar ever comes back twice.
  6. Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.
  7. The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to a…
  8. Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.

All Stephen Leacock quotes