F. L. Lucas Quotes

"Most style is not honest enough."
- F. L. Lucas
(Related: Style)

"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
(Related: Trust, English, Principles, Prose, Rules, Sound, Writers)

"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
(Related: Nature, Art, Men, Civilization, Common sense, Literature, World)

"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
(Related: People, Clarity, Trouble, Writing)

"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
(Related: End, Fact, Mind, Word)

"At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history."
- F. L. Lucas
(Related: History, Disgrace, Months, Will)

"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
(Related: Hope, Future, Reason)

"Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails."
- F. L. Lucas
(Related: Poetry, Open, Voice)