In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the… — E. V. Lucas Betting 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… — E. V. Lucas Adventurous Copy Share Image
Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages. — E. V. Lucas Continents 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… — E. V. Lucas Haig Copy Share Image
What kind of life a dog . . . acquires. I have sometimes tried to imagine by kneeling or lying full length… — E. V. Lucas Acquire Copy Share Image
What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance. — E. V. Lucas Books 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… — E. V. Lucas Dwellers Copy Share Image
The noise from good toast should reverberate in the head like the thunder of July. — E. V. Lucas Food Copy Share Image
The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue. — E. V. Lucas Distinguished Copy Share Image
A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action. — E. V. Lucas Action Copy Share Image
I am a believer in punctuality though it makes me very lonely — E. V. Lucas Believer Copy Share Image
The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing… — E. V. Lucas Civilized Copy Share Image
The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor. — E. V. Lucas Bachelors Copy Share Image
A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable. — E. V. Lucas Capable Copy Share Image
I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for… — E. V. Lucas Late Copy Share Image
The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek. — E. V. Lucas Curriculum Copy Share Image
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. Lucas Book Copy Share Image
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 Art Copy Share Image
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