F. L. Lucas

“It is unlikely that many of us will be famous, or even remembered. But not less important than the brilliant few that…

— F. L. Lucas

Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

— F. L. Lucas

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything…

— F. L. Lucas

I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune.

— F. L. Lucas

The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that…

— F. L. Lucas

A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem…

— F. L. Lucas

Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers…

— F. L. Lucas

It seems to me as natural and necessary to keep notes, however brief, of one's reading, as logs of voyages or photographs…

— F. L. Lucas

The simile sets two ideas side by side; in the metaphor they become superimposed.

— F. L. Lucas

This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of…

— F. L. Lucas

At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.

— F. L. Lucas

The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic…

— F. L. Lucas

Since in the long run deception is likely to be found out, your character had better not only seem good, but be…

— F. L. Lucas

Most style is not honest enough.

— F. L. Lucas

And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.

— F. L. Lucas

The more populous the world and the more intricate its structure, the greater must be its fundamental insecurity. A world-structure too elaborately…

— F. L. Lucas