The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization. — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
The more populous the world and the more intricate its structure, the greater must be its fundamental insecurity. A world-structure too elaborately scientific, if once disrupted by war, revolution, natural cataclysm or epidemic, might collapse into a chaos not easily… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
“It is unlikely that many of us will be famous, or even remembered. But not less important than the brilliant few that lead a… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails. — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn...… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune. — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
It seems to me as natural and necessary to keep notes, however brief, of one's reading, as logs of voyages or photographs of one's… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
The simile sets two ideas side by side; in the metaphor they become superimposed. — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion,… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history. — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
