32 Quotes by E. V. Lucas

A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.

Human 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.

There is no diplomacy like candor.

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

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

Every saint has a bee in his halo.

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.

I am a believer in punctuality though it makes me very lonely

Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular.