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Over Bemerton's, an Easy-Going Chronicle QUOTES

Over Bemerton's, an Easy-Going Chronicle QUOTES

1 " She doesn't love you because of anything— she loves. She doesn't care whether you are handsome or ugly, or old or young, or cruel or kind, or strong or weak, or conceited Or humble, whether you drop your h's, or have nothing in the bank— those things are beside the mark, because she loves. "

― Edward Verrall Lucas , Over Bemerton's, an Easy-Going Chronicle

2 " What I always wonder about Dickens," he said, "is how on earth did the man correct his proofs?" Because, as he went on to point out, between the time of writing and the time of correcting he must have thought of so many new descriptive touches, so many new creatures to add, so many new and adorable fantastic comments on life. How could he deny himself the joy of putting these in?— for there can be no pleasure like that of creation. "

― Edward Verrall Lucas , Over Bemerton's, an Easy-Going Chronicle

3 " As a child I had no doubts; but now? Take, for instance, telling the truth. I was brought up to believe that one should do that, and I knew a lie a mile off. But now I see that mendacity, or at any rate the suppression of one's real feelings and opinions, is the cement that binds society together. "

― Edward Verrall Lucas , Over Bemerton's, an Easy-Going Chronicle

4 " Do you think women ought to have the vote?" I asked him.

"My mother says," he replied, "that all the clever women have it already."

"Has she got it?" I asked.

He grinned. "I should rather say she had," he answered. "

― Edward Verrall Lucas , Over Bemerton's, an Easy-Going Chronicle

5 " It is when one reads counsels of something more than perfection— counsels of pedantic priggishness, shall we say— to natural, healthy children, that one realises how necessary compromise is to daily life and how far removed perfection is from the natural human being. "

― Edward Verrall Lucas , Over Bemerton's, an Easy-Going Chronicle

6 " It came to me this morning all unexpectedly, being the payment of a debt which I had long since given up hope of ever receiving. In other words, it is sheer profit, like all repaid loans. "

― Edward Verrall Lucas , Over Bemerton's, an Easy-Going Chronicle

7 " Venice indeed imposes laziness. Even Americans doing Europe approach restful-ness there. There is no hurrying a gondolier. "

― Edward Verrall Lucas , Over Bemerton's, an Easy-Going Chronicle

8 " In France he would have been, I think, a sad bore, for there he would have discovered so many points of superiority to the English: but not even so keen a censor of his own country and countrymen as Mr. Dabney could find aught in Venice, except such forgivable and inimitable advantages as crumbling and picturesque architecture and clear skies, to hold up as a model for home adoption. "

― Edward Verrall Lucas , Over Bemerton's, an Easy-Going Chronicle

9 " 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. "

― Edward Verrall Lucas , Over Bemerton's, an Easy-Going Chronicle

10 " Have misfortune and disease and frustration and insecurity been necessary to man's ingenuity and industry? Without sorrow should we have had no telegraph? without tears, no camera? Have all the benefits of civilisation been wrung from us in some effort to escape from the blows of fate? And even if so, might not happiness, without the advantages of progress, have still been better? "

― Edward Verrall Lucas , Over Bemerton's, an Easy-Going Chronicle

11 " He was born in 1770, in what he thought the best of all lands— Ireland; and he came home from the sea in 1802, but he did not take his pen 239 in hand until 1836, during which time his memory had purged itself of inessentials. He wrote them not for the cold eye of a publisher's reader but (like a gentleman) for his own family's entertainment. "

― Edward Verrall Lucas , Over Bemerton's, an Easy-Going Chronicle

12 " I know nothing of grammar;
At school they never could hammer
Or beat it into my head.
The bare word made me stammer,
And turn pale as if I were dead.
But here I may as well be telling,
I'm often damned out in my spelling. "

― Edward Verrall Lucas , Over Bemerton's, an Easy-Going Chronicle

13 " I could go on indefinitely thus, calling forth from their graves these hard-bitten sea dogs; but that is enough. It is literature in its way, is it not? Are there the same or kindred characters in the Navy to-day, one wonders. Let us hope so. "

― Edward Verrall Lucas , Over Bemerton's, an Easy-Going Chronicle

14 " None the less, the more I revolved the matter that evening the more did I wonder that affectionate parents can ever give their consent to their children's marriage at all. I can understand a father having no particular objection to his son's wife, and a mother to her daughter's husband; but how a father can ever even tolerate his daughter's husband or a mother the wife of her son, that is beyond my imagination. "

― Edward Verrall Lucas , Over Bemerton's, an Easy-Going Chronicle

15 " . . . the world is a great leveller, and every year brings with it certain modifying influences. I like a man to be his age. Twenty-one is not an age I am very partial to: it is omniscient and exorbitant and cruel; but I like a youth of twenty-one none the less. Forty makes better company: when a man knows how little he knows, and how little life holds for him, and is yet unsubdued. "

― Edward Verrall Lucas , Over Bemerton's, an Easy-Going Chronicle

16 " . . . company manners being for the most part a kind of sandpaper that removes the asperities (and occasionally the attractions) of personality. "

― Edward Verrall Lucas , Over Bemerton's, an Easy-Going Chronicle

17 " . . . she has an instinctive realisation of the inevitability of imperfection which keeps her contented— or at any rate prevents querulous discontent. "

― Edward Verrall Lucas , Over Bemerton's, an Easy-Going Chronicle

18 " Into golf I cannot follow him; partly because I have never played, and partly because I like socialism in games, and the idea of employing a caddie will always be unpleasant to me. "

― Edward Verrall Lucas , Over Bemerton's, an Easy-Going Chronicle

19 " I have come to the conclusion that the golfing temperament is essentially aristocratic— a feudal inheritance — the property exclusively of those who can see nothing absurd or even degrading in the spectacle of powerful frivolous men being followed by boys of burden. "

― Edward Verrall Lucas , Over Bemerton's, an Easy-Going Chronicle

20 " Not the least remarkable thing in this wonderful world in which we grope and have our being, is the amazing differences that can exist in the children of the same parents. "

― Edward Verrall Lucas , Over Bemerton's, an Easy-Going Chronicle