Author: F. L. Lucas

Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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