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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1a689ec | There won't be any more parades after this war. There aren't any now. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 69b3763 | The Central Empires represented Roman Catholicism, the Allies Protestantism and Orthodoxy. Let them unite. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 3cb04e4 | The exact eye: exact observation: it was a man's work. The only work for a man. Why then were artists soft: effeminate: not men at all: whilst the army officer, who had the inexact mind of the schoolteacher, was a manly man? Quite a manly man: until he became an old woman! | tietjens | Ford Madox Ford | |
| 1e36258 | It was as if a man should have jumped out of a frying pan into -- a duckpond. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 5c62a0f | God is probably -- and very rightly -- on the side of the stuffy domesticities. Otherwise | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 0e6ed17 | Otherwise the world could not continue -- the children would not be healthy. And | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 7d16b60 | Few Germans were imaginative enough to be irresponsible, but | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 0c90784 | Gentlemen don't earn money. Gentlemen, as a matter of fact, don't do anything. They | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 2f0f357 | This was a war of attrition...A mug's game! A mug's game as far as killing men was concerned, but not an uninteresting occupation if you considered it as a struggle of various minds spread all over the broad landscape in the sunlight. They did not kill many men and they expended an infinite number of missiles and a vast amount of thought. If you took six million men armed with loaded canes and stockings containing bricks or knives and set t.. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 8e55d49 | 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. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| b2f1743 | Being correspondent of a Left paper with a name like Eisenstein deprived one of one's chance of usefulness. Besides | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 37f3696 | Edith Ethel with the sweetest possible smile would beg the pillows off a whole hospital ward full of dying.... She | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 2f172a4 | It was probably indecent to think of a corpse as impotent. But he was, very likely. That would be why his wife had taken up with the prize-fighter Red Evans Williams of Castell Goch. | dead-man indecent no-more-parades parade-s-end | Ford Madox Ford | |
| cddafae | being a miner he sat on his heels more comfortably than on a chair | no-more-parades parade-s-end | Ford Madox Ford | |
| 3d9de0b | 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. | mind no-more-parades octopus parade-s-end | Ford Madox Ford | |
| 9b06a70 | It is, in fact, asking for trouble if you are more altruist than the society that surrounds you | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| c2523a6 | 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 | ||
| ca513f6 | I have, I am aware, told this story in a very rambling way so that it may be difficult for anyone to find his path through what may be a sort of maze. I cannot help it. I have stuck to my idea of being in a country cottage with a silent listener, hearing between the gusts of the wind and amidst the noises of the distant sea the story as it comes. And, when one discusses an affair - a long, sad affair - one goes back, one goes forward. One r.. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| aba72c6 | Good God, what did they all see in him? for I swear there was all there was of him, inside and out; though they said he was a good soldier. Yet, Leonora adored him with a passion that was like an agony, and hated him with an agony that was as bitter as the sea. How could he arouse anything like a sentiment, in anybody? | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 0d4359e | Leonora, as I have said, was the perfectly normal woman. I mean to say that in normal circumstances her desires were those of the woman who is needed by society. She desired children, decorum, an establishment she desired to avoid waste, she desired to keep up appearances. She was utterly and entirely normal even in her utterly undeniable beauty. But I don't mean to say that she acted perfectly normally in this perfectly abnormal situation... | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 2074976 | It is of course lawful to learn of the Enemy; but is it sensible? | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 5752b1b | That was what a young woman was for. You seduced a young woman in order to be able to finish your talks with her. You could not do that without living with her. You could not live with her without seducing her; but that was the by-product. The point is that you can't otherwise talk. You can't finish talks at street corners; in museums; even in drawing-rooms. You mayn't be in the mood when she is in the mood - for the intimate conversation t.. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 7aa1a44 | I seemed to perceive that my problem - that what I had to do to prepare myself for getting into contact with her, was just to get back into contact with life. I had been kept for twelve years in a rarefied atmosphere; what I then had to do was a little fighting with real life, some wrestling with men of business, some travelling amongst larger cities, something harsh, something masculine. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 084ab2e | By Jove...' he said to himself: 'It's true! What a jolly little mistress she'd make! | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 44476f7 | And Sylvia Tietjens wavered into the room. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| d4752ef | 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 | ||
| b4c3bca | 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 | ||
| b7b5e01 | there are times when to a poor priest the rule of the Church as regards marriage seems bitter hard | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| bbe29f5 | Mark's horror came from the fact that Christopher proposed to eschew comfort. An Englishman's duty is to secure for himself for ever, reasonable clothing, a clean shirt a day, a couple of mutton chops grilled without condiments, two floury potatoes, an apple pie with a piece of Stilton and pulled bread, a pint of Club Medoc, a clean room, in the winter a good fire in the grate, a comfortable arm-chair, a comfortable woman to see that all th.. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 88f28db | Mrs. Vanderdecken,' Sylvia went on, 'says all men are repulsive and it's woman's disgusting task to live beside them. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 89302b4 | There, there, my dear boy,' he said, 'come and have a sloe gin. That's the real answer to all beastly problems. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 941e8f4 | 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 | ||
| bafac21 | 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 | ||
| fcb5cd2 | I call this the Saddest Story, rather than 'The Ashburnham Tragedy,' just because it is so sad, just because there was no current to draw things along to a swift and inevitable end. There is about it none of the elevation that accompanies tragedy; there is no about it no nemesis, no destiny. Here were two noble people - for I am convinced that both Edward and Lenora had noble natures - here, then, were two noble natures, drifting down life,.. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 37de292 | He had the very greatest admiration. He admire her for her truthfulness, for her cleanness of mind, and the clean-run-ness of her limbs, for her efficiency, for the fairness of her skin, for the gold of her hair, for her religion, for her sense of duty. It was a satisfaction to take her about with him. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| d7eee88 | She was by that time tired of men, or she imagined that she was; for she was not prepared to be certain, considering the muckers she saw women coming all round her over the most unpresentable individuals. Men, at any rate, never fulfilled expectations. They might, upon acquaintance, turn out more entertaining than they appeared; but almost always taking up with a man was like reading a book you had read when you had forgotten that you had r.. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 7705ab3 | IT has been remarked that the peculiarly English habit of self-suppression in matters of the emotions puts the Englishman at a great disadvantage in moments of unusual stresses. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 7523219 | 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 | ||
| d547faf | But the fellow talked like a cheap novelist. - Or like a very good novelist for the matter of that, if it's the business of a novelist to make you see things clearly. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| c0326bf | 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 | ||
| b029f05 | But to betray her with battalion... That is against decency, against Nature...And for him, Christopher tietjens, to come down to the level of the men you met here! | betrayal indecency loyalty no-more-parades parade-s-end sylvia-tietjens | Ford Madox Ford | |
| 6b578f5 | She had to have men at her feet; that was, as it were, the price of her - purely social - daily bread as it was the price of the daily bread of her intimates. She was, and had been for many years, absolutely continent. And so very likely were, and had been, all her Moiras, and Megs, and Lady Marjories - but she was perfectly aware that they had to have, above their assemblies as it were, a light vapour of the airs and habits of the brothel... | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| ed0246f | It was business, and business may be presumed to cover quite a lot of bad taste. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 9ea2806 | A great night, with room enough for Heaven to be hidden there from our not too perspicacious eyes.... It was said that an earthquake shock imperceptible to our senses set those cattle and sheep and horses and pigs crashing through all the hedges of the county. And it was queer: before they had so started lowing and moving Mark was now ready to swear that he had heard a rushing sound. He probably had not! One could so easily self-deceive one.. | Ford Madox Ford |