E. V. Lucas
E. V. Lucas
Edward Verrall Lucas, CHwas an English humorist, essayist, playwright, biographer, publisher, poet, novelist, short story writer and editor...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth11 June 1868
life art loss
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.
cooking shadow literature
What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.
courtesy defence courtesy-manners
There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
food july noise
The noise from good toast should reverberate in the head like the thunder of July.
halos saint bees-and-honey
Every saint has a bee in his halo.
war mean haig
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!
candor diplomacy
There is no diplomacy like candor.
life art hands
The art of life is to show your hand.
horse eye expression
A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.