E. V. Lucas Quotes & Sayings

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

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

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy. — E. V. Lucas

To set but a low value upon toast is to expose one's deficiencies in right appreciation. — E. V. Lucas

There are two words for everything. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

The art of life is to show your hand. — E. V. Lucas

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

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

Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular. — E. V. Lucas

There is no diplomacy like candor. — E. V. Lucas

Nothing is wasted. — E. V. Lucas