Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.
—E. V. Lucas
Topics: Happiness
Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular.
—E. V. Lucas
Topics: Women
Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.
—E. V. Lucas
Topics: Idleness
I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
—E. V. Lucas
Topics: Punctuality
There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.
—E. V. Lucas
Topics: Manners, Courtesy
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.
—E. V. Lucas
Topics: Honesty
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