33 Quotes by Edward Verrall Lucas

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

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

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

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

The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world’s curriculum does not include Latin and Greek.

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