E. V. Lucas Quotes

#1. To set but a low value upon toast is to expose one's deficiencies in right appreciation.

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#2. Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

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#3. There is no diplomacy like candor.

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

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#5. There are two words for everything.

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

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#7. 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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#8. 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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#9. The noise from good toast should reverberate in the head like the thunder of July.

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#10. 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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#11. There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

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#12. The art of life is to show your hand.

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

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#14. 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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#15. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.

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#16. The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.

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

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

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#20. Nothing is wasted.

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

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#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.

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#25. 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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#26. 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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