There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy. E. V. Lucas More Quotes by E. V. Lucas More Quotes From E. V. Lucas 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. E. V. Lucas loss life art Every cat is really the most beautiful woman in the room. E. V. Lucas beautiful-women cat beautiful I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them. E. V. Lucas procrastination time people What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance. E. V. Lucas shadow cooking food There are two words for everything. E. V. Lucas writing two Every saint has a bee in his halo. E. V. Lucas halos saint bees-and-honey Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular. E. V. Lucas accustomed women men I am a believer in punctuality though it makes me very lonely E. V. Lucas punctuality believer lonely 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 dream adventure love The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor. E. V. Lucas mother heart men A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable. E. V. Lucas unique doe men 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. E. V. Lucas ethics risk honesty Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle. E. V. Lucas work character men 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 phrases roots people 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. E. V. Lucas nature liars hands The noise from good toast should reverberate in the head like the thunder of July. E. V. Lucas july noise food The art of life is to show your hand. E. V. Lucas life hands art 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 greek latin education 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', not 'arf. But when 'e do say something--my Gawd! E. V. Lucas haig war mean You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. E. V. Lucas now-and-then loss may
