And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me. — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
“The rocks would be there a million years after the light went for the last time out.” — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
“But always, at moments when his mind was like a blind octopus, squirming in an agony of knife-cuts, she would drop in… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
“At the same time, Mrs de Bray Pape was saying things to the discredit of Marie Antoinette, whom apparently she disliked. He… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
“She said that she did not wish for any monuments to the Hurlbird family. At the time I thought that that was… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
It is not merely that people must die and people must suffer, if not here, then there. But what is dreadful is… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
“she had always considered that, far from the world of Ealing and its county councillors who over-ate and neighed like stallions, there… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
“But upon my word, I don't know how we put in our time. How does one put in one's time? How is… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
“A gentleman in those days consulted his heirs about tree planting. Should you plant a group of copper beeches against a group… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible - because it is large enough to be… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share
“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… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share
“You see in such a world as this, an idealist -or perhaps it's only a sentimentalist-must be stoned to death. He makes the others… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share
“A gentleman in those days consulted his heirs about tree planting. Should you plant a group of copper beeches against a group of white… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share
“How was it possible that the most honourable man she knew should be so overwhelmed by foul and baseless rumours? It made you suspect… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share
It is not merely that people must die and people must suffer, if not here, then there. But what is dreadful is that the… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share
“But upon my word, I don't know how we put in our time. How does one put in one's time? How is it possible… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share
In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason, intellect corrects… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share
“No, by God, it is false! It wasn't a minuet that we stepped; it was a prison - a prison full of screaming hysterics,… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share
Damn it all, it's the first duty of a soldier - it's the first duty of all Englishmen - to be able to tell… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share
“Yes, society must go on; it must breed, like rabbits. That is what we are here for. But then, I don't like society—much.” — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share
“The signal for the train's departure was a very bright red; that is about as passionate a statement as I can get into that… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share
...she had always known under her mind and now she confessed it: her agony had been, half of it, because one day he would… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share
“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… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share
