32 Quotes by E. V. Lucas

A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable.

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!

The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.

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

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

There are two words for everything.

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

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

In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past.