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Ford Madox Ford quotes: The novel is a medium of profoundly serious investigation into the human case. The novel is a medium of profoundly serious investigation into the human case.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: He was presumably a lover. They did things like commanding battalions. And worse! He was presumably a lover. They did things like commanding battalions. And worse!
Ford Madox Ford quotes: I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone. I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you. Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: What did you do on Armistice Night? My beloved is mine and I am his! What did you do on Armistice Night? My beloved is mine and I am his!
Ford Madox Ford quotes: It is of course lawful to learn of the Enemy; but is it sensible? It is of course lawful to learn of the Enemy; but is it sensible?
Ford Madox Ford quotes: The repressions of the passionate drive them mad. The repressions of the passionate drive them mad.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: It is, in fact, asking for trouble if you are more altruist than the society that surrounds you. It is, in fact, asking for trouble if you are more altruist than the society that surrounds you.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden. Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: They were simple, earnest people, those early Victorians, and had not yet learnt the trick of avoiding disturbing thoughts and sights. They were simple, earnest people, those early Victorians, and had not yet learnt the trick of avoiding disturbing thoughts and sights.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: Being a miner he sat on his heels more comfortably than on a chair Being a miner he sat on his heels more comfortably than on a chair
Ford Madox Ford quotes: Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst. Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: The signal for the train's departure was a very bright red; that is about as passionate a statement as I can get into that scene. The signal for the train's departure was a very bright red; that is about as passionate a statement as I can get into that scene.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: The rocks would be there a million years after the light went for the last time out. The rocks would be there a million years after the light went for the last time out.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: That in effect was love. It struck him as astonishing. The word was so little in his vocabulary ... That in effect was love. It struck him as astonishing. The word was so little in his vocabulary ...
Ford Madox Ford quotes: God is probably - and very rightly - on the side of the stuffy domesticities. Otherwise God is probably - and very rightly - on the side of the stuffy domesticities. Otherwise
Ford Madox Ford quotes: And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me. And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: Damn it all, it's the first duty of a soldier - it's the first duty of all Englishmen - to be able to tell a good lie in answer to Damn it all, it's the first duty of a soldier - it's the first duty of all Englishmen - to be able to tell a good lie in answer to a charge.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: By Jove ... ' he said to himself: 'It's true! What a jolly little mistress she'd make! By Jove ... ' he said to himself: 'It's true! What a jolly little mistress she'd make!
Ford Madox Ford quotes: There are times when to a poor priest the rule of the Church as regards marriage seems bitter hard There are times when to a poor priest the rule of the Church as regards marriage seems bitter hard
Ford Madox Ford quotes: So you cannot teach me a great deal about the shady in life. I was in the family of a Middlesex County Councillor. In So you cannot teach me a great deal about the shady in life. I was in the family of a Middlesex County Councillor. In
Ford Madox Ford quotes: Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception. Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: Ruggles disliked Christopher Tietjens with the inveterate dislike of the man who revels in gossip for the man who never gossips. Ruggles disliked Christopher Tietjens with the inveterate dislike of the man who revels in gossip for the man who never gossips.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: What distinguished man from the brutes was his freedom. When, What distinguished man from the brutes was his freedom. When,
Ford Madox Ford quotes: Inspector had been in the library, and might possibly have Inspector had been in the library, and might possibly have
Ford Madox Ford quotes: Edward ought, I suppose, to have gone to the Transvaal. It would have done him a great deal of good to get killed. Edward ought, I suppose, to have gone to the Transvaal. It would have done him a great deal of good to get killed.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: When, then, a man was deprived of freedom he became like a brute. To When, then, a man was deprived of freedom he became like a brute. To
Ford Madox Ford quotes: The world is full of places to which I want to return The world is full of places to which I want to return
Ford Madox Ford quotes: But of course he hates you for being in the army. All the men who aren't hate all the men that are. But of course he hates you for being in the army. All the men who aren't hate all the men that are.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: But responsibility hardens the heart. It must. But responsibility hardens the heart. It must.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: Was this then Lent, pressing hard on the heels of Saturnalia? Not Was this then Lent, pressing hard on the heels of Saturnalia? Not
Ford Madox Ford quotes: He was grotesque, really. But joy radiated from his homespuns when you walked beside him. It welled out; it enveloped you. He was grotesque, really. But joy radiated from his homespuns when you walked beside him. It welled out; it enveloped you.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: The gods to each ascribe a differing lot: Some enter at the portal. Some do not! The gods to each ascribe a differing lot: Some enter at the portal. Some do not!
Ford Madox Ford quotes: But always, at moments when his mind was like a blind octopus, squirming in an agony of knife-cuts, she would drop in that accusation. But always, at moments when his mind was like a blind octopus, squirming in an agony of knife-cuts, she would drop in that accusation.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: But decent augurs grin behind their masks. They never preach to each other. But decent augurs grin behind their masks. They never preach to each other.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: That monstrosity you honour with your name - which is also mine, thank you! That monstrosity you honour with your name - which is also mine, thank you!
Ford Madox Ford quotes: The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of the fact he is reading a book. The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of the fact he is reading a book.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: And Sylvia Tietjens wavered into the room. And Sylvia Tietjens wavered into the room.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: I don't know what anyone has to be proud of. I don't know what anyone has to be proud of.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: As Tietjens saw the world, you didn't "talk." Perhaps you didn't even think about how you felt. As Tietjens saw the world, you didn't "talk." Perhaps you didn't even think about how you felt.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: (You cannot control your imagination's pictures. Of (You cannot control your imagination's pictures. Of
Ford Madox Ford quotes: Nulla dies felix - call no day fortunate till it be ended. Nulla dies felix - call no day fortunate till it be ended.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: For love is like a journey in mountainous country, up through the clouds, and down into the shadows to an unknown destination. For love is like a journey in mountainous country, up through the clouds, and down into the shadows to an unknown destination.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: But charity begins surely with the char! But charity begins surely with the char!
Ford Madox Ford quotes: Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never sounded the depths of an English heart. I had known the shallows. Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never sounded the depths of an English heart. I had known the shallows.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible - because it is large enough to be incurious. New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible - because it is large enough to be incurious.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: [W]e are almost always in one place with our minds somewhere quite other. [W]e are almost always in one place with our minds somewhere quite other.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: It was business, and business may be presumed to cover quite a lot of bad taste. It was business, and business may be presumed to cover quite a lot of bad taste.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: Edith Ethel with the sweetest possible smile would beg the pillows off a whole hospital ward full of dying ... . She Edith Ethel with the sweetest possible smile would beg the pillows off a whole hospital ward full of dying ... . She
Ford Madox Ford quotes: Being correspondent of a Left paper with a name like Eisenstein deprived one of one's chance of usefulness. Besides Being correspondent of a Left paper with a name like Eisenstein deprived one of one's chance of usefulness. Besides
Ford Madox Ford quotes: I thought suddenly that she wasn't real; she was just a mass of talk out of guidebooks, of drawings out of fashion-plates. I thought suddenly that she wasn't real; she was just a mass of talk out of guidebooks, of drawings out of fashion-plates.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: Then, happy was the man who carried his liquor well. Then, happy was the man who carried his liquor well.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: Few Germans were imaginative enough to be irresponsible, but Few Germans were imaginative enough to be irresponsible, but
Ford Madox Ford quotes: It is a queer world and fantastic world. Why can't people have what they want? It is a queer world and fantastic world. Why can't people have what they want?
Ford Madox Ford quotes: Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing. Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: If you hunch your shoulders too long against a storm your shoulders will grow bowed. ... If you hunch your shoulders too long against a storm your shoulders will grow bowed. ...
Ford Madox Ford quotes: If you're going to have a character appear in a story long enough to sell a newspaper, he'd better be real enough that you can smell his breath. If you're going to have a character appear in a story long enough to sell a newspaper, he'd better be real enough that you can smell his breath.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: It was as if a man should have jumped out of a frying pan into - a duckpond. It was as if a man should have jumped out of a frying pan into - a duckpond.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: Gentlemen don't earn money. Gentlemen, as a matter of fact, don't do anything. They Gentlemen don't earn money. Gentlemen, as a matter of fact, don't do anything. They
Ford Madox Ford quotes: He carried that obsession with him always. And in the end, by its very wrongness, it saved his life. He carried that obsession with him always. And in the end, by its very wrongness, it saved his life.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: Isn't there any heaven where old beautiful dances, old beautiful intimacies prolong themselves? Isn't there any heaven where old beautiful dances, old beautiful intimacies prolong themselves?
Ford Madox Ford quotes: The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story! The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story!
Ford Madox Ford quotes: What did we want with an Empire! It What did we want with an Empire! It
Ford Madox Ford quotes: This is the saddest story I have ever heard. This is the saddest story I have ever heard.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: She had Authority conferred on her. Metempsychosistically. She had Authority conferred on her. Metempsychosistically.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: Our Minister for Water-closets won't keep two and a half million men in any base in order to get the votes of their women Our Minister for Water-closets won't keep two and a half million men in any base in order to get the votes of their women
Ford Madox Ford quotes: These trenches are like Pompeii, sir. These trenches are like Pompeii, sir.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: I couldn't regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or, if he ever comes to do so, that is the end of him. I couldn't regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or, if he ever comes to do so, that is the end of him.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: Otherwise the world could not continue - the children would not be healthy. And Otherwise the world could not continue - the children would not be healthy. And
Ford Madox Ford quotes: His sister-in-law Sylvia represented for him unceasing, unsleeping activities of a fantastic kind. His sister-in-law Sylvia represented for him unceasing, unsleeping activities of a fantastic kind.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: Words passed, but words could no more prove an established innocence than words can enhance a love that exists. Words passed, but words could no more prove an established innocence than words can enhance a love that exists.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: My dear, it couldn't have lasted for ever ... But you're a good man. And very clever ... . You will get through ... . My dear, it couldn't have lasted for ever ... But you're a good man. And very clever ... . You will get through ... .
Ford Madox Ford quotes: If you live among dogs they'll think you've the motives of a dog. If you live among dogs they'll think you've the motives of a dog.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guarantee of their lasting texture. It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guarantee of their lasting texture.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: For Mrs. Satterthwaite interested herself - it was the only interest she had - in handsome, thin, and horribly disreputable young men. For Mrs. Satterthwaite interested herself - it was the only interest she had - in handsome, thin, and horribly disreputable young men.
Ford Madox Ford quotes: Sylvia knew he was only now formulating his settled opinion so as not to have his active brain to give to the discussion. Sylvia knew he was only now formulating his settled opinion so as not to have his active brain to give to the discussion.

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