Edward Verrall Lucas, CH (11/12 June 1868 – 26 June 1938) was an English humorist, essayist, playwright, biographer, publisher, poet, novelist, short story writer and editor.
A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable.
Every saint has a bee in his halo.
There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular.
Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.
The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.
A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.
In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past.
There are two words for everything.
To set but a low value upon toast is to expose one's deficiencies in right appreciation.
The art of life is to show your hand.
I am a believer in punctuality though it makes me very lonely
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!
There is no diplomacy like candor.
The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.
You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.
One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.