"Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica."
― Stephen Leacock
Topic(s):
Imagination
More From Stephen Leacock
- "It’s called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy."
- "Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it."
- "Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect."
More In Imagination
- "And here’s the fact: the fact is it doesn’t solve the problem. First of all, if you taxed these people at 100 percent, basically next year you said, ‘Look, every penny you make next year the government’s going to take it from you,’ it still doesn’t solve the debt."― Marco Rubio
- "I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I’m likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination."― Andrew Motion
- "Love doesn’t grow on trees like apples in Eden – it’s something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too."― Joyce Cary