E. V. Lucas Quotes

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.

Every cat is really the most beautiful woman in the room.

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

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

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

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

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.

There are two words for everything.

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Every saint has a bee in his halo.

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

There is no diplomacy like candor.

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.

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

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The art of life is to show your hand.

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

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.