Quotes by Ford Madox Ford

Ford Madox Ford

…she had always known under her mind and now she confessed it: her agony had been, half of it, because one day he would say farewell to her, like that, with the inflexion of a verb. As, just occasionally, using the word ‘we’ – and perhaps without intention – he had let her know that he loved her.

Agony

Farewell

Mind

And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me.

Lighthouse

Moments

Moving

But responsibility hardens the heart. It must.

Heart

Responsibility

Ford’s last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception.

Lasts

Noble

Queens

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.

Hills

Men

Shire

He wouldn’t write a letter because he couldn’t without beginning it ‘Dear Sylvia’ and ending it ‘Yours sincerely’ or ‘truly’ or ‘affectionately.’ He’s that sort of precise imbecile. I tell you he’s so formal he can’t do without all the conventions there are and so truthful he can’t use half of them.

Half

Use

Writing

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.

Ends

Men

Regard

If for nine years I have possessed a goodly apple that is rotten at the core and discover its rottenness only in nine years and six months less four days, isn’t it true to say that for nine years I possessed a goodly apple?

Apples

Six Months

Years

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.

Character

Real

Smell

It is not merely that people must die and people must suffer, if not here, then there. But what is dreadful is that the world goes on and people go on being stupidly cruel – in the old ways and all the time.

Goes On

People

Suffering

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Agony

Apples

Artist

Beautiful

Book

Character

Class

Concerned

Crucible

Depth

Easy

Encouragement

Ends

Farewell

Goes On

Guarantees

Half

Heart

Heaven

Hills

Lasts

Lighthouse

Loneliness

Mean

Men

Mind

Moments

Moving

New York

Ninety Nine

Noble

Novelists

Odd

People

Quality

Queens

Reading

Real

Regard

Responsibility

Return

Shire

Six Months

Smell

Soul

Suffering

Texture

Two

Use

Want

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Quotes by Ford Madox Ford

Ford Madox Ford

And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me.

But responsibility hardens the heart. It must.

Ford’s last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception.

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.

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.

If for nine years I have possessed a goodly apple that is rotten at the core and discover its rottenness only in nine years and six months less four days, isn’t it true to say that for nine years I possessed a goodly apple?

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.

It is not merely that people must die and people must suffer, if not here, then there. But what is dreadful is that the world goes on and people go on being stupidly cruel – in the old ways and all the time.

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