129 Quotes by Ford Madox Ford

The Central Empires represented Roman Catholicism, the Allies Protestantism and Orthodoxy. Let them unite.

The gods to each ascribe a differing lot: Some enter at the portal. Some do not!

If you live among dogs they’ll think you’ve the motives of a dog.

It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guarantee of their lasting texture.

Gentlemen don’t earn money. Gentlemen, as a matter of fact, don’t do anything. They.

Isn’t there any heaven where old beautiful dances, old beautiful intimacies prolong themselves?

I know nothing – nothing in the world – of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone – horribly alone.

Yes, a war is inevitable. Firstly, there’s you fellows who can’t be trusted. And then there’s the multitude who mean to have bathrooms and white enamel. Millions of them; all over the world. Not merely here. And there aren’t enough bathrooms and white enamel in the world to go round.

You see in such a world as this, an idealist – or perhaps it’s only a sentimentalist – must be stoned to death.