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

#down #even #himself #make #man

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

#clarity #how #impress #mainly #people

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

#both #ears #english #few #matters

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

— F. L. Lucas

#disgrace #few #grace #history #last

Most style is not honest enough. ↗

— F. L. Lucas

#honest #most #style

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

— F. L. Lucas

#directly #fails #far #grows #had

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

#depends #flight #future #hope #i

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

#because #came #civilization #common #common sense