All F L Lucas Quotes
- Most style is not honest enough. Fake
- Might was the measure of right. Funny
- Since in the long run deception is likely to be found out, your character had better not only seem good, but be it. Better
- 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 travels.… Brief
- 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… Cataclysm
- And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them. Achieved
- 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… Art
- Great fear is concealed under daring. Concealed
- I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune. All
- The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last… Clause
- A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at… All
- Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails. Better
- The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it. Braver
- Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not… Apart
- 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, its… Both
- At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history. Czechs