E. V. Lucas Quotes

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

— E. V. Lucas

There is no diplomacy like candor.

— E. V. Lucas

Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

— E. V. Lucas

“Nothing is wasted.”

— E. V. Lucas

The art of life is to show your hand.

— E. V. Lucas

There are two words for everything.

— E. V. Lucas

“You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.”

— E. V. Lucas

“Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.”

— E. V. Lucas

“The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.”

— E. V. Lucas

What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.

— E. V. Lucas

“The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek.”

— E. V. Lucas

“Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular.”

— E. V. Lucas

“I am a believer in punctuality though it makes me very lonely”

— E. V. Lucas

“The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.”

— E. V. Lucas

A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable.

— E. V. Lucas

“A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.”

— E. V. Lucas

“In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past.”

— E. V. Lucas

“To set but a low value upon toast is to expose one's deficiencies in right appreciation.”

— E. V. Lucas

“What kind of life a dog ... acquires. I have sometimes tried to imagine by kneeling or lying full length on the ground and looking up. The world then becomes strangely incomplete; one sees little but legs.”

— E. V. Lucas

People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche.

— E. V. Lucas

Aig [F.-M. Sir Douglas Haig] 'e don't say much; 'e don't, so to say, say nothin'; but what 'e don't say don't mean nothin', not 'arf. But when 'e do say something
my Gawd!

— E. V. Lucas

The noise from good toast should reverberate in the head like the thunder of July.

— E. V. Lucas

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

— E. V. Lucas

“Human nature is rarely so amusing as when trying to get a house off its hands. Women at this task can be untruthful enough, but their untruth lacks the infusion of candor which a skillful male liar can introduce.”

— E. V. Lucas

“Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.”

— E. V. Lucas

“Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.”

— E. V. Lucas