Inspirational Quotes by F. L. Lucas (English Literary Critic)

Might was the measure of right.
—F. L. Lucas
Topics: Morals, Morality

I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune.
—F. L. Lucas

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.
—F. L. Lucas
Topics: Losing, Losers, Loss

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, its effects are largely ill or null.
—F. L. Lucas
Topics: Enthusiasm, Passion

Great fear is concealed under daring.
—F. L. Lucas
Topics: Fear

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
Topics: Common Sense

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