E. V. Lucas Quotes

The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.

"Do you think women ought to have the vote?" I asked him. </br> "My mother says," he replied, "that all the clever women have it already." </br> "Has she got it?" I asked. </br> He grinned. "I should rather say she had," he answered.

Poor G.K.C., his day is past— </br> Now God will know the truth at last.

I never need to see any one twice to know them. My first impressions are always right. Sometimes I go back on my first impressions, but it is always a mistake to do so.

Life is strangely suspicious and impatient of youth and candour and innocence and naïveté. Hardly does it perceive these exquisite qualities to exist than it rubs away their bloom with a rough finger. How often one longs for an arrested progress — for a little girl to go on being a little girl a little longer; for the perpetual kitten of our dreams! But no; the Creator is not that kind of artist.

The time for second-hand book-shops...is after one's work, not during one's work.

The crying need for the moment in this country, as in America, is a gospel of poverty to cope with the gospel of riches that is vitiating society.