Ford Madox Ford Quotes

But always, at moments when his mind was like a blind octopus, squirming in an agony of knife-cuts, ...

Isn't there any heaven where old beautiful dances, old beautiful intimacies prolong themselves?

I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly...

He was presumably a lover. They did things like commanding battalions. And worse!

It's the quality of harmony, sir. The quality of being in harmony with you own soul. God having give...

If you only would!" He added rather diffidently: "If you would not mind remembering that I am a mili...

Every word that he had spoken amongst the amassed beauties of Macmaster furnishings had been a link ...

All feminine claws, he said to himself, are sheathed in velvet; but they can hurt a good deal if the...

Well, then, he ought to write her a letter. He ought to say: 'This is to tell you that I propose to ...

Yes, a war is inevitable. Firstly, there's you fellows who can't be trusted. And then there's the mu...

You have to wait together - for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final intimate conver...

At the beginning of the war…I had to look in on the War Office, and in a room I found a fellow…What ...

Upon my soul!' Tietjens said to himself, 'that girl down there is the only intelligent living soul I...

In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion st...

But to betray her with battalion... That is against decency, against Nature...And for him, Christoph...

New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible - bec...

We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own ...

But we who remain shall grow oldWe shall know the coldOf cheerlessWinter and the rain of Autumn and ...

You may ask why I write. And yet my reasons are quite many. For it is not unusual in human beings wh...