"It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses……" — Ford Madox Ford
"It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guarantee of their lasting texture."
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35 Quotes by Ford Madox Ford
Ford Madox Ford has 35 quotes on this site.
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The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and…
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The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists -…
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In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands…
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If you hunch your shoulders too long against a storm your shoulders will grow bowed.…
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It is not merely that people must die and people must suffer, if not here, then there. But what is…
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Damn it all, it's the first duty of a soldier - it's the first duty of all Englishmen - to…
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What the artist wishes to do — as far as you are concerned — is to take you out of…
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I couldn't regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or, if he ever comes to do so, that is…
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Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never sounded the depths of an English…
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Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.
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And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at…
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If you only would!" He added rather diffidently: "If you would not mind remembering that I am a military court…
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Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds…
— Mary Astell
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The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are…
— Teresa of Avila
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In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from…
— Charles Babbage
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Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
— Lord Chesterfield
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To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
— Lord Chesterfield
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The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and…
— Peter Abelard
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Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a…
— Sidney Altman
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In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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And when we would make much of that which cannot matter much to thee, forgive us -a frequent part of…
— John E. Hines
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It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is…
— Sun Tzu
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Today, people are talking about many things: the danger of war and frequent clashes, water and air pollution, hunger, the…
— Fethullah Gulen
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