E. V. Lucas quotes
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“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.”
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“Every cat is really the most beautiful woman in the room.”
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“What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.”
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“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. LucasSource : 365 Days and One More (1926) p. 277
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“One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.”
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“I am a believer in punctuality though it makes me very lonely”
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“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. LucasSource : 1932 Reading,Writing and Remembering, ch.1.
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“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.”
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“Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.”
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“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.”
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“A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.”
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“In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past.”
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“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!”
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“There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.”
-- E. V. LucasSource : 1932 Reading,Writing and Remembering, ch.8.
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“You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.”
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“The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.”
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“The noise from good toast should reverberate in the head like the thunder of July.”
-- E. V. LucasSource : Lucas, E. V. (2014). “Fireside and Sunshine”, p.18, Read Books Ltd
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“The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek.”
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“Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular.”
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“Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.”
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“People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche.”
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“To set but a low value upon toast is to expose one's deficiencies in right appreciation.”
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“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.”
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“Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.”
-- E. V. Lucas
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