Frank Laurence Lucas (1894–1967) was 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.
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I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune.
—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, its effects are largely ill or null.
—F. L. Lucas
Topics: Enthusiasm
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