Apples Quote by Ford Madox Ford

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

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

“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

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

“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

“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