Advertising - A judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

— Stephen Leacock

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

— Stephen Leacock

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

— Stephen Leacock

A half-truth like half a brick is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

— Stephen Leacock

A half-truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

— Stephen Leacock

Any man will admit if need be that his sight is not good or that he cannot swim or shoots badly with a rifle but to touch upon his sense of humor is to give him mortal affront.

— Stephen Leacock

A sportsman is a man who sometimes simply has to get out and kill something. Not that he's cruel. He wouldn't hurt a fly. It's not big enough.

— Stephen Leacock

Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it.

— Stephen Leacock

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it

— Stephen Leacock

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

— Stephen Leacock