F. L. Lucas
F. L. Lucas
Frank Laurence Lucaswas an English classical scholar, literary critic, poet, novelist, playwright, political polemicist, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and intelligence officer at Bletchley Park during World War II...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionCritic
knowing means money ton
Knowing what it means to sometimes have a ton of money, and sometimes have no money and have to come up on-the-fly with something.
fake-people style honest
Most style is not honest enough.
long grace munich
At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
passion null done
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.
simple ears matter
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.
mind lasts facts
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 continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
ideas two sides
The simile sets two ideas side by side; in the metaphor they become superimposed.