Ford Madox Ford Quotes
Top 76 wise famous quotes and sayings by Ford Madox Ford
Ford Madox Ford Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone.
They were simple, earnest people, those early Victorians, and had not yet learnt the trick of avoiding disturbing thoughts and sights.
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.
And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me.
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.
So you cannot teach me a great deal about the shady in life. I was in the family of a Middlesex County Councillor. In
Ruggles disliked Christopher Tietjens with the inveterate dislike of the man who revels in gossip for the man who never gossips.
Edward ought, I suppose, to have gone to the Transvaal. It would have done him a great deal of good to get killed.
He was grotesque, really. But joy radiated from his homespuns when you walked beside him. It welled out; it enveloped you.
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.
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.
For love is like a journey in mountainous country, up through the clouds, and down into the shadows to an unknown destination.
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.
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.
Edith Ethel with the sweetest possible smile would beg the pillows off a whole hospital ward full of dying ... . She
Being correspondent of a Left paper with a name like Eisenstein deprived one of one's chance of usefulness. Besides
I thought suddenly that she wasn't real; she was just a mass of talk out of guidebooks, of drawings out of fashion-plates.
Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing.
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.
He carried that obsession with him always. And in the end, by its very wrongness, it saved his life.
The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story!
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
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.
Words passed, but words could no more prove an established innocence than words can enhance a love that exists.
My dear, it couldn't have lasted for ever ... But you're a good man. And very clever ... . You will get through ... .
It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guarantee of their lasting texture.