Top 90 Ford Madox Ford Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “You can’t kill a minuet de la coeur. You may shut up the music book... but surely the minuet – the minuet itself is dancing itself away into the furthest stars, even as our minuet of the Hessian bathing places must be stepping itself still.”

— Ford Madox Ford

52. “He thought about her deliberately. Hard. Nothing happened. He thought of her fair, undistinguished, fresh face that made your heart miss a beat when you thought about it. His heart missed a beat. Obedient heart! Like the first primrose. Not any primrose. The first primrose.”

— Ford Madox Ford

53. “It was business, and business may be presumed to cover quite a lot of bad taste.”

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54. “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

55. “Then, happy was the man who carried his liquor well.”

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56. “There won’t be any more parades after this war. There aren’t any now.”

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57. “AT the slight creaking made by Macmaster in pushing open his door, Tietjens started violently. He was sitting in a smoking-jacket, playing patience engrossedly in a sort of garret bedroom. It had a sloping roof outlined by black oak beams, which cut into squares the cream-coloured patent distemper of the walls.”

— Ford Madox Ford

58. “Gentlemen don’t earn money. Gentlemen, as a matter of fact, don’t do anything. They.”

— Ford Madox Ford

59. “It wasn’t as if we were waiting for a train, it wasn’t as if we were waiting for a meal – it was just that there were was nothing to wait for. Nothing.”

— Ford Madox Ford

60. “It is, in fact, asking for trouble if you are more altruist than the society that surrounds you.”

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61. “Society must go on, I suppose, and society can only exist if the normal, if the virtuous, and the slightly deceitful flourish, and if the passionate, the headstrong, and the too-truthful are condemned to suicide and to madness.”

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62. “It’s the quality of harmony, sir. The quality of being in harmony with you own soul. God having given you your own soul you are then in harmony with Heaven.”

— Ford Madox Ford

63. “And Paris, when you avoid the more conspicuous resorts, and when you are unprovided with congenial companionship can prove nearly as overwhelming as is, say, Birmingham on a Sunday.”

— Ford Madox Ford

64. “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

65. “A great deal of the calmness of her insolence had left her. She had expected to have the whole night in which luxuriously to torment the lump opposite her. To torment him and to allure him.”

— Ford Madox Ford

66. “So you cannot teach me a great deal about the shady in life. I was in the family of a Middlesex County Councillor. In.”

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67. “I HAVE, I am aware, told this story in a very rambling way so that it may be difficult for anyone to find their path through what may be a sort of maze.”

— Ford Madox Ford

68. “I am not going to be so American as to say that all true love demands some sacrifice. It doesn’t. But I think that love will be truer and more permanent in which self-sacrifice has been exacted.”

— Ford Madox Ford

69. “Being correspondent of a Left paper with a name like Eisenstein deprived one of one’s chance of usefulness. Besides.”

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70. “Ruggles disliked Christopher Tietjens with the inveterate dislike of the man who revels in gossip for the man who never gossips.”

— Ford Madox Ford

71. “Otherwise the world could not continue – the children would not be healthy. And.”

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72. “If you live among dogs they’ll think you’ve the motives of a dog.”

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73. “You see in such a world as this, an idealist – or perhaps it’s only a sentimentalist – must be stoned to death.”

— Ford Madox Ford

74. “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

75. “Few Germans were imaginative enough to be irresponsible, but.”

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76. “He thought he suddenly understood. For the Lincon-shire sergeant-major the word Peace meant that a man could stand up on a hill. For him it meant someone to talk to.”

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77. “Fellows come in and tell the most extraordinarily gross stories – so gross that they will positively give you a pain. And yet they’d be offended if you suggested that they weren’t the sort of person you could trust your wife alone with.”

— Ford Madox Ford

78. “He had a great deal to think of if he was to get the hang of – he was certainly not going to interfere with – the world and having to listen to conversations that were mostly moral apophthegms had tired him. He got too many at too short intervals.”

— Ford Madox Ford

79. “No, by God, it is false! It wasn’t a minuet that we stepped; it was a prison – a prison full of screaming hysterics, tied down so that they might not outsound the rolling of our carriage wheels as we went along the shaded avenues of the Taunus Wald.”

— Ford Madox Ford

80. “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

81. “The Central Empires represented Roman Catholicism, the Allies Protestantism and Orthodoxy. Let them unite.”

— Ford Madox Ford

82. “And Sylvia Tietjens wavered into the room.”

— Ford Madox Ford

83. “I thought suddenly that she wasn’t real; she was just a mass of talk out of guidebooks, of drawings out of fashion-plates.”

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84. “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

85. “That in effect was love. It struck him as astonishing. The word was so little in his vocabulary...”

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86. “It is of course lawful to learn of the Enemy; but is it sensible?”

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87. “In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason, intellect corrects passion and first impressions act a little, but very little, before quick reflection. Yet first impressions have always a bias in their favour, and even quiet reflection has often a job to efface them.”

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88. “She had Authority conferred on her. Metempsychosistically.”

— Ford Madox Ford

89. “But, even with all her differences, Mrs. Basil did not appear to Lenora to differ so very much from herself. She was truthful, honest and, for the rest, just a woman. And Lenora had a vague sort of idea that, to a man, all women are the same after three weeks of close intercourse.”

— Ford Madox Ford

90. “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