You have to wait together - for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final intimate conversation may be… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
“Well she was bright; and she danced...And my function in life was to keep that bright thing in existence. And it was… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
“The day of her long interview with Tietjens, amongst the amassed beauties of Macmaster furnishings, she marked in the calendar of her… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
“He was grotesque, really. But joy radiated from his homespuns when you walked beside him. It welled out; it enveloped you.” — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
“With each new woman that a man is attracted to there appears to come a broadening of the outlook, or, if you… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
“You seduced a young woman in order to be able to finish your talks with her. You could not do that without… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
“She at least was broad-minded, and moreover she understood the workings of the human heart. It was creditable for a man to… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
Mind, I am not preaching anything contrary to accepted morality. I am not advocating free love in this or any other case.… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
“Every word that he had spoken amongst the amassed beauties of Macmaster furnishings had been a link in a love-speech. It was… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
I couldn't regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or, if he ever comes to do so, that is the end… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
“What did you do on Armistice Night? My beloved is mine and I am his!” — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
“That was what a young woman was for. You seduced a young woman in order to be able to finish your talks… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 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 it possible… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
