E. V. Lucas famous quotes

04-12-2025

The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
-- E. V. Lucas

#Life #Art #Loss
Every cat is really the most beautiful woman in the room.
-- E. V. Lucas

#Beautiful #Cat #Beautiful Women
What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.
-- E. V. Lucas

#Cooking #Shadow #Literature
I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
-- E. V. Lucas

#Procrastination #People #Waiting
One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
-- E. V. Lucas

#Love #Dream #Adventure
I am a believer in punctuality though it makes me very lonely
-- E. V. Lucas

#Lonely #Punctuality #Believer
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

#Wise #Book #Venture
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

#Dog #Lying #World
Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
-- E. V. Lucas

#Hype #Deception #Boring
There is no diplomacy like candor.
-- E. V. Lucas

#Candor #Diplomacy
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

#Nature #Liars #Hands
A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.
-- E. V. Lucas

#Horse #Eye #Expression
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

#Past #Race #Two
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

#War #Mean #Haig
There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
-- E. V. Lucas

#Courtesy #Defence
You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.
-- E. V. Lucas

#Loss #May #Now And Then
The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.
-- E. V. Lucas

#Son #France #Distinguished
Every saint has a bee in his halo.
-- E. V. Lucas

#Halos #Saint #Bees
The noise from good toast should reverberate in the head like the thunder of July.
-- E. V. Lucas

#Food #July #Noise
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

#Education #Latin #Greek
Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular.
-- E. V. Lucas

#Women #Men
Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
-- E. V. Lucas

#Country #People #Language
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

#Roots #People #Phrases
There are two words for everything.
-- E. V. Lucas

#Two
Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.
-- E. V. Lucas

#Happiness #Blood #Suspicion
To set but a low value upon toast is to expose one's deficiencies in right appreciation.
-- E. V. Lucas

#Appreciation #Lows #Deficiency
The art of life is to show your hand.
-- E. V. Lucas

#Life #Art #Hands
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.
-- E. V. Lucas

#Honesty #Risk #Courageous
Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.
-- E. V. Lucas

#Character #Men #Enough

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