E. V. Lucas Quotes
-
There is no diplomacy like candor.
-
The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.
-
There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
-
The art of life is to show your hand.
-
One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
-
Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.
-
Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
-
I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
-
You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.
-
Nothing is wasted.
-
Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
-
The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.
-
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.
-
The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.
-
There are two words for everything.
-
A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.
-
In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past.
-
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!
-
People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche.
-
The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek.