E. V. Lucas

“A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.”

“Humor, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its objects in a genial and abiding light.”

“Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.”

“There's nothing in the world so sad as a pawnbroker's shop.”

“The world is divided into two classes, those who have something to say and those who have to say something.”

“I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.”

“The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.”

“There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.”

“Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience.”

“The world is only beginning to see that the wealth of a nation consists more than anything else in the number of superior men that it harbours.”