Inspirational Quotations

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

F. L. Lucas (1894–1967,) fully Frank Laurence Lucas, was a British scholar, critic, political polemicist, poet, and novelist. He also served as an intelligence officer at Bletchley Park during World War II.

Born in Hipperholme, West Yorkshire, Lucas became a fellow and reader in English at King’s College, Cambridge. He wrote many works of criticism, including Seneca and Elizabethan Tragedy (1922) and Eight Victorian Poets (1930,) volumes of poetry such as Time and Memory (1929) and Ariadne (1932,) and plays including Land’s End (1938.)

Lucas’s works of criticism include Tragedy in Relation to Aristotle’s Poetics (1927) and The Decline and Fall of the Romantic Ideal (1936.)

Among Lucas’s other works are a study of Ibsen and Strindberg (1962) and numerous translations from Greek, which include a version of the Iliad (1950) and the anthology Greek Poetry for Everyman (1951.)

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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

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: Passion, Enthusiasm

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

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

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

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

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