Ford Madox Ford Quotes

We used to say that a passage of good style began with a fresh, usual word, and continued with fresh, usual words to the end; there was nothing more to it.

Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.

Alas, it does indeed seem a monstrous thing, but after all, what is chaste in Constantinople may have the aspect of lewdness in Liverpool, and what in Liverpool may pass for virtue in Constantinople is frequently regarded as vice.

You cannot be absolutely dumb when you live with a person unless you are an inhabitant of the North of England or the State of Maine.

I should say that Rossetti was a man without principles at all, who earnestly desired to find salvation along the lines of least resistance.

God knows that the lesson we learn from life is that our very existence in the nature of things is a perpetual harming of somebody else – if only because every mouthful of food that we eat is a mouthful taken from somebody else.