129 Quotes by Ford Madox Ford

The world is full of places to which I want to return.

The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story – and then your story!

Edward ought, I suppose, to have gone to the Transvaal. It would have done him a great deal of good to get killed.

I suppose that my inner soul – my dual personality – had realized long before that Florence was a personality of paper – that she represented a real human being with a heart, with feelings, with sympathies and with emotions only as a bank-note represents a certain quantity of gold.

And Sylvia Tietjens wavered into the room.

But responsibility hardens the heart. It must.

But of course he hates you for being in the army. All the men who aren’t hate all the men that are.

I HAVE, I am aware, told this story in a very rambling way so that it may be difficult for anyone to find their path through what may be a sort of maze.

He added that a Frenchman in the train had given him a great sandwich that so stank of garlic that he had been inclined to throw it at the fellow’s head.