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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 600effd | The beastliness of human nature is always pretty normal. We lie and betray and are wanting in imagination and deceive ourselves, always, at about the same rate. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| f4e89a1 | That he knew marked him off as belonging to the sentimental branch of humanity. He couldn't help it: Stoic or Epicurean: Caliph in the harem or Dervish desiccating in the sand: one or the other you must be. And his desire was to be a saint of the Anglican variety... as his mother had been, without convent, ritual, vows, or miracles to be performed by your relics! That sainthood, truly, the Foreign Legion might give you... The desire of ever.. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 20c1a17 | Then," Father Consett said, "if ye know him so well, Sylvia Satterthwaite, how is it ye can't get on with him better? They say: Tout savoir c'est tout pardonner." "It isn't," Sylvia said. "To know everything about a person is to be bored... bored... bored!" | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 2b383b5 | I like the slow, smooth roll of the great big trains--and they are the best trains in the world! I like being drawn through the green country and looking at it through the clear glass of the great windows. Though, of course, the country isn't really green. The sun shines, the earth is blood red and purple and red and green and red. And the oxen in the ploughlands are bright varnished brown and black and blackish purple; and the peasants are.. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 1a0d908 | Though I believe you're a good lad. But you're the sort of fellow to set a whole division by the ears... A regular... what's 'is name? A regular Dreyfus!" "Did you think Dreyfus was guilty?" Tietjens asked. "Hang it," the General said, "he was worse than guilty--the sort of fellow you couldn't believe in and yet couldn't prove anything against. The curse of the world..." | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 54c0ff0 | But why was he born to be a sort of lonely buffalo: outside the herd? Not artist: not soldier: not bureaucrat: not certainly indispensable anywhere: apparently not even sound in the eyes of these dim-minded specialists... An exact observer... | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 8fe05c7 | It would be restful to serve, if only as a slave, people who saw clearly, coldly, straight, not obliquely and with hypocrisy only, such things as should deviously conduce to the standard of comfort of hogs and to lecheries winked at...He | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| f0edb98 | Although Tietjens hated golf as he hated any occupation that was of a competitive nature, he could engross himself in the mathematics of trajectories when | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 8326a10 | And Tietjens, who hated no man, in face of this simple-minded and agreeable schoolboy type of fellow, fell to wondering why it was that humanity that was next to always agreeable in its units was, as a mass, a phenomenon so hideous. You look at a dozen men, each of them not by any means detestable and not uninteresting: for each of them would have technical details of their affairs to impart: you formed them into a Government or a club, and.. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| d21735e | Of course Christopher would cultivate an English accent: to show that he was an English country gentleman. And he would speak correctly - to show that an English Tory can do anything in the world if he wants to . . . | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 59c4cf3 | How was it possible that the most honourable man she knew should be so overwhelmed by foul and baseless rumours? It made you suspect that honour had, in itself, a quality of the evil eye . . . | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 6c5a1d3 | he invited Sylvia to dine with him somewhere where they were going to have something fabulous and very nasty at about two guineas the ounce on the menu. Something like that! And during dinner Sir John had entertained her by singing the praises of her husband. He said that Tietjens was much too great a gentleman to be wasted on the old-furniture trade: that was why he hadn't persisted. But he sent by Sylvia a message to the effect that if ev.. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 1300dfb | Ruggles told my father what he did because it is not a good thing to belong to the seventeenth or eighteenth centuries in the twentieth. Or really, because it is not good to have taken one's public-school's ethical system seriously. I am really, sir, the English public schoolboy. That's an eighteenth-century product. What with | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| d5a9b51 | It pleased Tietjens to think that his children would be well provided for if he were killed. A nice, silent, capable man who usually looked into the distance rather abstractedly when he talked. He was killed two months later, cleanly, by a bullet. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 44c75b9 | What did we want with an Empire! It | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 4fd6e7c | I DON'T KNOW how it is best to put this thing down - whether it would be better to try and tell the story from the beginning, as if it were a story; or whether to tell it from this distance of time, as it reached me from the lips of Leonora or from those of Edward himself. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 145c7f8 | When, then, a man was deprived of freedom he became like a brute. To | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 92eb28d | A! Te wojne bedzie warto zobaczyc... Zadnego pijanego rzucania sie do gardel bandytow-imbecyli... - Moja matka by zwariowala! - powiedziala Sylwia. - Bynajmniej - odparl. - To ja podnieci, o ile dozyje. | excite parade-s-end some-do-not sylvia-tietjens war | Ford Madox Ford | |
| 5d6060a | I don't know. I know nothing. I am very tired. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 6892c79 | the voice of M. Schontz would go on and on under its breath like that of an unclean priest reciting from his breviary in the corner of a railway-carriage. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 52db7e6 | It is queer the fantastic things that quite good people will do in order to keep up their appearance of calm pococurantism. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| dd9ee18 | It is a queer and fantastic world. 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 | ||
| 85db188 | You and I are like two people . . ." He paused and began again more quickly: "Do you know these soap advertisement signs that read differently from several angles? As you come up to them you read 'Monkey's Soap'; if you look back when you've passed it's 'Needs no Rinsing.' . . . You and I are standing at different angles and though we both look at the same thing we read different messages. Perhaps if we stood side by side we should see yet .. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| a64016a | The beastliness of human nature is always pretty normal. We lie and betray and are wanting in imagination and deceive ourselves, always, at about the same rate. In peace and in war! But, somewhere in that view there are enormous bodies of men...If you got a still more extended range of view over this whole front you'd have still more enormous bodies of men...Seven to ten million...All moving towards places towards which they desperately don.. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 4a9311a | Work by Ford Madox Brown, | A.N. Wilson | ||
| e270a20 | Much of this pattern of thought finds its echo in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood - who were young enough to be Carlyle's sons. The 'brotherhood' began in 1848 at 83 Gower Street, when a group of art students vowed 'to produce thoroughly good pictures and statues'. Of the original seven, three members of the PRB - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, aged twenty, John Everett Millais, aged nineteen, and William Holman Hunt, aged twenty-one - went on to b.. | A.N. Wilson | ||
| 4b85652 | nulla dies felix--call no day fortunate till it be ended. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 043411d | Was this then Lent, pressing hard on the heels of Saturnalia? Not | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 3c3c26b | Inspector had been in the library, and might possibly have | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 9657cdc | 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 | ||
| f32a346 | I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I do not need. | Auguste Rodin | ||
| 87c0584 | Patience is also a form of action. | Auguste Rodin | ||
| c4998f5 | I know very well that one must fight, for one is often in contradiction to the spirit of the age. | Auguste Rodin | ||
| ade0abf | A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love. | Augustine Birrell | ||
| a69f46e | Great is bookishness and the charm of books. | Augustine Birrell | ||
| 241c895 | Personally, I am dead against the burning of books. | Augustine Birrell | ||
| 85617d8 | There were no books in Eden, and there will be none in heaven. | Augustine Birrell | ||
| ad27edb | Is it costing you anything to be a Christian? | Warren W. Wiersbe | ||
| 264a65d | There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector. | Augustine Birrell | ||
| 85f3d50 | It can never be wrong to give pleasure. | Augustine Birrell | ||
| 7b05a20 | The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| e207bde | Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider. | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| 2bf8f31 | The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls. | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| 1481cf0 | So if givers are most likely to land at the bottom of the success ladder, who's at the top--takers or matchers? Neither. When I took another look at the data, I discovered a surprising pattern: It's the givers again. As we've seen, the engineers with the lowest productivity are mostly givers. But when we look at the engineers with the highest productivity, the evidence shows that they're givers too. | Adam M. Grant |