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.
What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.
What kind of life a dog. . . acquires. I have sometimes tried to imagine by kneeling or lying full length on the ground and looking up. The world then becomes strangely incomplete; one sees little but legs.
People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche.