Frasi di Stephen Leacock
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Stephen Leacock
Data di nascita: 30. Dicembre 1869
Data di morte: 28. Marzo 1944
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Stephen Butler Leacock , economista e scrittore canadese.
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economista, funzionario e diplomatico canadeseFrasi Stephen Leacock
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„Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.“
— Stephen Leacock
"Gertrude the Governess", Nonsense Novels (1911)
„My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.“
— Stephen Leacock
On leaving England at age seven.
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„It is to be observed that "angling" is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.“
— Stephen Leacock
When Fellers Go Fishing http://books.google.com/books?id=I-kCAAAAMAAJ&q=%22It+is+to+be+observed+that+angling+is+the+name+given+to+fishing+by+people+who+can't+fish%22&pg=PA147#v=onepage, The Leacock Roundabout, (1945)
„Presently I shall be introduced as 'this venerable old gentleman' and the axe will fall when they raise me to the degree of 'grand old man'. That means on our continent any one with snow-white hair who has kept out of jail till eighty.“
— Stephen Leacock
On achieving fame in Canada.
Three Score and Ten
„Special Correspondence. I learn from a very high authority, whose name I am not at liberty to mention, (speaking to me at a place which I am not allowed to indicate and in a language which I am forbidden to use)—that Austria-Hungary is about to take a diplomatic step of the highest importance. What this step is, I am forbidden to say. But the consequences of it—which unfortunately I am pledged not to disclose—will be such as to effect results which I am not free to enumerate.“
— Stephen Leacock
The Hohenzollerns in America (1919)
