"Open the book to page ninety-nine and read,……" — Ford Madox Ford

Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of… - Ford Madox Ford

"Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you."

— Ford Madox Ford

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35 Quotes by Ford Madox Ford

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The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and…
The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists -…
In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands…
If you hunch your shoulders too long against a storm your shoulders will grow bowed.…
It is not merely that people must die and people must suffer, if not here, then there. But what is…
Damn it all, it's the first duty of a soldier - it's the first duty of all Englishmen - to…
What the artist wishes to do — as far as you are concerned — is to take you out of…
I couldn't regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or, if he ever comes to do so, that is…
Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never sounded the depths of an English…
Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.
And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at…
If you only would!" He added rather diffidently: "If you would not mind remembering that I am a military court…

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