E. V. Lucas Quotes
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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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The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.
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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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Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
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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.
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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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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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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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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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Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular.
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A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable.
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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.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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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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What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.
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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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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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The noise from good toast should reverberate in the head like the thunder of July.
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Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
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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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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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Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.
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The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.
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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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There are two words for everything.
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Every saint has a bee in his halo.
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I am a believer in punctuality though it makes me very lonely
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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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Every cat is really the most beautiful woman in the room.
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The art of life is to show your hand.
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