E. V. Lucas Quotes

People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche.

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!

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.

Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.

You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.

The noise from good toast should reverberate in the head like the thunder of July.

What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.

There are two words for everything.

To set but a low value upon toast is to expose one's deficiencies in right appreciation.

Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.