Elaborate Courtesy Quotes by E. V. Lucas

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E. V. Lucas has 29 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• 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…
• I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for…
• What kind of life a dog . . . acquires. I have sometimes tried to imagine by kneeling or lying full length…
• 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…
• 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.

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