Stephen Leacock citáty
Stephen Leacock
Datum narození: 30. prosinec 1869
Datum úmrtí: 28. březen 1944
Stephen Leacock byl kanadský humorista a vysokoškolský učitel politické ekonomie na McGillově univerzitě v Montrealu. Proslavily jej zejména humoristické povídky, jichž napsal na dvě desítky knih. Věnuje se v nich obyčejným životním situacím, které dožene do absurdních konců.
Citáty Stephen Leacock
„Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.“
"Gertrude the Governess", Nonsense Novels (1911)
„Many of my friends are under the impression that I write these humorous nothings in idle moments when the wearied brain is unable to perform the serious labours of the economist. My own experience is exactly the other way. The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the folk-lore of Central China, or a statistical enquiry into the declining population of Prince Edward Island. But to write something out of one's own mind, worth reading for its own sake, is an arduous contrivance only to be achieved in fortunate moments, few and far between. Personally, I would sooner have written "Alice in Wonderland" than the whole Encyclopaedia Britannica.“
— Stephen Leacock, kniha Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Preface
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912)
„A barber is by nature and inclination a sport. He can tell you at what exact hour the ball game is to begin, can foretell its issue without losing a stroke of the razor, and can explain the points of inferiority of all the players, as compared with the better men that he has personally seen elsewhere, with the nicety of a professional.“
— Stephen Leacock, Literary Lapses
Men Who Have Shaved Me
Literary Lapses (1910)
„It is to be observed that "angling" is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.“
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)