E. V. Lucas Quotes

• 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 will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

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  Life, Art, Loss

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

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  Beautiful, Cat, Beautiful Women

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• I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

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  Time, Procrastination, People

  365 Days and One More (1926) p. 277

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

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  Food, Cooking, Shadow

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• A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable.

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  Unique, Men, Doe

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• The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.

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  Mother, Heart, Men

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• One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.

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  Love, Dream, Adventure

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• There are two words for everything.

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  Writing, Two

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• Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

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  Happiness, Laughter, Blood

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• Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular.

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  Women, Men, Accustomed

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• Every saint has a bee in his halo.

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  Halos, Saint, Bees And Honey

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• There is no diplomacy like candor.

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  Candor, Diplomacy

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• 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 the only courageous thing left to do.

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  Honesty, Risk, Ethics

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• I am a believer in punctuality though it makes me very lonely

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  Lonely, Punctuality, Believer

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

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  Country, Learning, People

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• People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche.

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  Roots, People, Phrases

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

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  Food, July, Noise

  Lucas, E. V. (2014). “Fireside and Sunshine”, p.18, Read Books Ltd

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• There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

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  Courtesy, Manners, Defence

  1932 Reading,Writing and Remembering, ch.8.

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• A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.

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  Horse, Eye, Expression

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• Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.

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  Wise, Book, Venture

  1932 Reading,Writing and Remembering, ch.1.

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• The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek.

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  Education, Latin, Greek

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• 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 their untruth lacks the infusion of candor which a skillful male liar can introduce.

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  Nature, Liars, Hands

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

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  Work, Character, Men

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• The art of life is to show your hand.

  E. V. Lucas

  Life, Art, Hands

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• Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

  E. V. Lucas

  Hype, Deception, Boring

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