Stephen Leacock was a Canadian write, political scientist, humorist, and teacher, renowned for his superlative comic skills. He was best known for his light humor supported by skepticism and criticism of people and their errors. Starting off from humble beginnings as a writer in magazines, he went on to publish novels which became popular worldwide. Famous comedians such as Jack Benny and Groucho Marx have acknowledged the role of Leacock as an inspiration for their works. His popular fictional and non-fictional works include Literary Lapses, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich, Practical Political Economy and Humour and Humanity. Apart from these works, Leacock also published biographies of Charles Dickens and Mark Twain. The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour is presented to authors in Canada for outstanding achievements in this genre of writing. We have curated some of his notable quotes from his writings, observations, speeches, interviews etc. Let us go through some of the greatest quotes by Stephen Leacock.
There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.
Stephen Leacock
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.
Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
Stephen Leacock
We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.
Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.
If their occupation is actual work they prefer to pump water into cisterns,
two of which leak through holes in the bottom and one of
which is water-tight. A, of course, has the good one;
