F. L. Lucas famous quotes

04-17-2025

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.
-- F. L. Lucas

#Use #Panic #Flight
Most style is not honest enough.
-- F. L. Lucas

#Fake People #Style #Honest
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 effects are largely ill or null.
-- F. L. Lucas

#Passion #Null #Done
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 so much to rules as to their ears.
-- F. L. Lucas

#Simple #Sound #Principles
Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.
-- F. L. Lucas

#Voice #Failing #Pulpit
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.
-- F. L. Lucas

#Men #May #Tomorrow
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 word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
-- F. L. Lucas

#Mind #Lasts #Facts
I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune.
-- F. L. Lucas

#Son #Wife #Fortune
Great fear is concealed under daring.
-- F. L. Lucas

#Overcoming #Overcoming Fear #Daring
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

#Art #War #Tired
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

#Writing #People #Clarity
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 rebuilt.
-- F. L. Lucas

#War #Epidemics #Insecurity
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. For memory, in most of us, is a liar with galloping consumption.
-- F. L. Lucas

#Memories #Liars #Reading
Since in the long run deception is likely to be found out, your character had better not only seem good, but be it.
-- F. L. Lucas

#Running #Honesty #Character
Might was the measure of right.
-- F. L. Lucas

#Might
At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
-- F. L. Lucas

#Long #Grace #Munich

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