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.

- 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

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 memor…

- 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 …

- 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 that passion…

- 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 follows, that last word continue…

- 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 wholly nonsense at all.

- 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 it.

- F. L. Lucas