Frasi di Stephen Leacock
Stephen Leacock
Data di nascita: 30. Dicembre 1869
Data di morte: 28. Marzo 1944
Stephen Butler Leacock , economista e scrittore canadese.
Frasi Stephen Leacock
„La pubblicità si può descrivere come la scienza di fermare l'intelligenza umana per il tempo necessario a spillarle quattrini.“
— Stephen Leacock
Source: Citato in Gino e Michele, Matteo Molinari, Le Formiche: anno terzo, Zelig Editore, 1995, § 1957.
„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, libro Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912), On leaving England at age seven.
„You know, many a man realizes late in life that if when he was a boy he had known what he knows now, instead of being what he is he might be what he won't; but how few boys stop to think that if they knew what they don't know instead of being what they will be, they wouldn't be?“
— Stephen Leacock, Literary Lapses
Literary Lapses (1910), How to Make a Million Dollars
„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.“
— Stephen Leacock, Literary Lapses
Literary Lapses (1910), Reflections on Riding
„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
„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)
„Of course, Pupkin would never have thought of considering himself on an intellectual par with Mallory Tompkins. That would have been ridiculous. Mallory Tompkins had read all sorts of things and had half a mind to write a novel himself—either that or a play. All he needed, he said, was to have a chance to get away somewhere by himself and think. Every time he went away to the city Pupkin expected that he might return with the novel all finished; but though he often came back with his eyes red from thinking, the novel as yet remained incomplete.“
— Stephen Leacock, libro Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912)
„You frequently ask, where are the friends of your childhood, and urge that they shall be brought back to you. As far as I am able to learn, those of your friends who are not in jail are still right there in your native village. You point out that they were wont to share your gambols, If so, you are certainly entitled to have theirs now.“
— Stephen Leacock, Literary Lapses
Literary Lapses (1910), The Poet Answered
„The Lord said "Let there be wheat" and Saskatchewan was born.“
— Stephen Leacock
My Discovery of America (1937)
