The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and… — E. V. Lucas Copy Share Image
Human nature is rarely so amusing as when trying to get a house off its hands. Women at this task can be… — E. V. Lucas Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams. — E. V. Lucas Copy Share Image
Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages. — E. V. Lucas Copy Share Image
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',… — E. V. Lucas Copy Share Image
What kind of life a dog . . . acquires. I have sometimes tried to imagine by kneeling or lying full length on the… — E. V. Lucas Copy Share Image
What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance. — E. V. Lucas Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The noise from good toast should reverberate in the head like the thunder of July. — E. V. Lucas Copy Share Image