Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl.

— Stephen Leacock

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

— Stephen Leacock

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

— Stephen Leacock

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.

— Stephen Leacock

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

— Stephen Leacock

The best definition of humor I know is: humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life and the artistic expression thereof. I think this is the best I know because I wrote it myself.

— Stephen Leacock

The British are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.

— Stephen Leacock

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

— Stephen Leacock

The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born.

— Stephen Leacock

The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.

— Stephen Leacock