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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.
— Ford Madox Ford
Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.
— Ford Madox Ford
What did you do on Armistice Night? My beloved is mine and I am his!
— Ford Madox Ford
It is of course lawful to learn of the Enemy; but is it sensible?
— Ford Madox Ford
The repressions of the passionate drive them mad.
— Ford Madox Ford
It is, in fact, asking for trouble if you are more altruist than the society that surrounds you.
— Ford Madox Ford
Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden.
— Ford Madox Ford
They were simple, earnest people, those early Victorians, and had not yet learnt the trick of avoiding disturbing thoughts and sights.
— Ford Madox Ford
Being a miner he sat on his heels more comfortably than on a chair
— Ford Madox Ford
What's the matter with you, Madox? You got a grudge against the world?
— Charles Williams
God is probably - and very rightly - on the side of the stuffy domesticities. Otherwise
— Ford Madox Ford
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
That in effect was love. It struck him as astonishing. The word was so little in his vocabulary ...
— Ford Madox Ford
The rocks would be there a million years after the light went for the last time out.
— Ford Madox Ford
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
When, then, a man was deprived of freedom he became like a brute. To
— Ford Madox Ford
And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me.
— Ford Madox Ford
By Jove ... ' he said to himself: 'It's true! What a jolly little mistress she'd make!
— Ford Madox Ford
There are times when to a poor priest the rule of the Church as regards marriage seems bitter hard
— Ford Madox Ford
Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.
— Ford Madox Ford
Ruggles disliked Christopher Tietjens with the inveterate dislike of the man who revels in gossip for the man who never gossips.
— Ford Madox Ford
Inspector had been in the library, and might possibly have
— Ford Madox Ford
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
What distinguished man from the brutes was his freedom. When,
— Ford Madox Ford
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
The world is full of places to which I want to return
— Ford Madox Ford
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
But responsibility hardens the heart. It must.
— Ford Madox Ford
Was this then Lent, pressing hard on the heels of Saturnalia? Not
— Ford Madox Ford
He was grotesque, really. But joy radiated from his homespuns when you walked beside him. It welled out; it enveloped you.
— Ford Madox Ford
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
I never was lost. I was bewildered right bad once for as much as a week, but not lost.
— Elizabeth Madox Roberts
What's devil to some is good to some others.
— Elizabeth Madox Roberts
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
And Sylvia Tietjens wavered into the room.
— Ford Madox Ford
I don't know what anyone has to be proud of.
— Ford Madox Ford
As Tietjens saw the world, you didn't "talk." Perhaps you didn't even think about how you felt.
— Ford Madox Ford
(You cannot control your imagination's pictures. Of
— Ford Madox Ford
Few Germans were imaginative enough to be irresponsible, but
— Ford Madox Ford
But charity begins surely with the char!
— Ford Madox Ford
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
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
Edith Ethel with the sweetest possible smile would beg the pillows off a whole hospital ward full of dying ... . She
— Ford Madox Ford
Being correspondent of a Left paper with a name like Eisenstein deprived one of one's chance of usefulness. Besides
— Ford Madox Ford
Nulla dies felix - call no day fortunate till it be ended.
— Ford Madox Ford
Then, happy was the man who carried his liquor well.
— Ford Madox Ford
Does the devil know he is a devil?
— Elizabeth Madox Roberts
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
If you hunch your shoulders too long against a storm your shoulders will grow bowed. ...
— Ford Madox Ford
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
Gentlemen don't earn money. Gentlemen, as a matter of fact, don't do anything. They
— Ford Madox Ford
Don't leave FDR-1 behind, I think to my fox.
Madox cocks his head like, Seriously, the damn iguana? — Victoria Scott
Madox cocks his head like, Seriously, the damn iguana? — Victoria Scott
His sister-in-law Sylvia represented for him unceasing, unsleeping activities of a fantastic kind.
— Ford Madox Ford
Isn't there any heaven where old beautiful dances, old beautiful intimacies prolong themselves?
— Ford Madox Ford
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
What did we want with an Empire! It
— Ford Madox Ford
This is the saddest story I have ever heard.
— Ford Madox Ford
She had Authority conferred on her. Metempsychosistically.
— Ford Madox Ford
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
These trenches are like Pompeii, sir.
— Ford Madox Ford
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
He carried that obsession with him always. And in the end, by its very wrongness, it saved his life.
— Ford Madox Ford
Words passed, but words could no more prove an established innocence than words can enhance a love that exists.
— Ford Madox Ford
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
If you live among dogs they'll think you've the motives of a dog.
— Ford Madox Ford
It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guarantee of their lasting texture.
— Ford Madox Ford
For Mrs. Satterthwaite interested herself - it was the only interest she had - in handsome, thin, and horribly disreputable young men.
— Ford Madox Ford
Sylvia knew he was only now formulating his settled opinion so as not to have his active brain to give to the discussion.
— Ford Madox Ford