Edward Verrall Lucas, CH (11/12 June 1868 – 26 June 1938) was an English humorist, essayist, playwright, biographer, publisher, poet, novelist, short story writer and editor.
The noise from good toast should reverberate in the head like the thunder of July.
To set but a low value upon toast is to expose one's deficiencies in right appreciation.
Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.
You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.
The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.
I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek.
A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.
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.
In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past.
There is no diplomacy like candor.
What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.
The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.
Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular.
People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche.
Every cat is really the most beautiful woman in the room.
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!
Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.
There are two words for everything.
A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable.