129 Quotes by Ford Madox Ford

God is probably – and very rightly – on the side of the stuffy domesticities. Otherwise.

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 itself away into the furthest stars, even as our minuet of the Hessian bathing places must be stepping itself still.

If for nine years I have possessed a goodly apple that is rotten at the core and discover its rottenness only in nine years and six months less four days, isn’t it true to say that for nine years I possessed a goodly apple?

The repressions of the passionate drive them mad.

Ruggles disliked Christopher Tietjens with the inveterate dislike of the man who revels in gossip for the man who never gossips.

These trenches are like Pompeii, sir.

I thought suddenly that she wasn’t real; she was just a mass of talk out of guidebooks, of drawings out of fashion-plates.

By Jove... ′ he said to himself: ‘It’s true! What a jolly little mistress she’d make!

That in effect was love. It struck him as astonishing. The word was so little in his vocabulary...