Author: F. L. Lucas

Quotes

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

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

- F. L. Lucas

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

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

- 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 should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.

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

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.

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

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