To set but a low value upon toast is to expose one's deficiencies in right appreciation.
E. V. LucasOne of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
E. V. LucasThe 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. LucasPeople in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche.
E. V. LucasA horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.
E. V. LucasAig [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. LucasWhat 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.
E. V. LucasHuman 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. LucasA genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable.
E. V. LucasAmericans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
E. V. LucasThe trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.
E. V. LucasI 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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