33 Quotes by Edward Verrall Lucas

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

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

Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

Every cat is really the most beautiful woman in the room.

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

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.

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.

The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.

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