Values Quotes by E. V. Lucas

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

— E. V. Lucas

The art of life is to show your hand.

— E. V. Lucas

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

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

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

— E. V. Lucas

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

— E. V. Lucas

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

There is no diplomacy like candor.

— E. V. Lucas

What kind of life a dog . . . acquires. I have sometimes tried to imagine by kneeling or lying full length on the…

— E. V. Lucas

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

— E. V. Lucas

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

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

— E. V. Lucas