Stephen Leacock

Who was Stephen Leacock?

Stephen P. H Butler Leacock, FRSC was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. In the early part of the 20th century he was the best-known humourist in the English-speaking 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.

Famous Quotes:

• It may be those who do most, dream most.
• Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
• I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
• I am a great believer in luck and the harder I work the more of it I have.
• The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
• 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.
• What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.
• Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
• Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
• Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.