E. V. Lucas Quotes

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• To set but a low value upon toast is to expose one's deficiencies in right appreciation.
• The art of life is to show your hand.
• Every cat is really the most beautiful woman in the room.
• 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…
• I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
• What kind of life a dog . . . acquires. I have sometimes tried to imagine by kneeling or lying full length on the ground…
• Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular.
• Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
• People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche.
• There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
• There are two words for everything.
• Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.
• Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.
• I am a believer in punctuality though it makes me very lonely
• What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.
• 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…
• In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past.
• A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.
• 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…
• There is no diplomacy like candor.

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