Quotes
List here any quote, from Ford Madox Ford's book Parade's End. Quotes that inspire you, or give you a strong visual image, or maybe you just admire the author's use of words ..... poetic, lyrical, straightforward, cultural, etc ...
We are reading Parade's End in celebration of Ford Madox Ford's birthday: December 17, 1873 “If you live among dogs they’ll think you’ve the motives of a dog.” ― Ford Madox... Read "Some Do Not" Part One of Ford's tetralogy, Parade's End here: http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700171h.html
The fly that took them back went with the slow pomp of a procession over the winding marsh road in front of the absurdly picturesque red pyramid of the very old town.
ReplyDeleteIn every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason, intellect corrects passion and first impressions act just a little, but very little, before quick reflection. Yet first impressions have always a bias in their favour, and even quiet reflection has often a job to efface them.
ReplyDeleteAll feminine claws, he said to himself, are sheathed in velvet; but they can hurt a good deal if they touch you on the sore places of the defects of your qualities--even merely with the velvet.
ReplyDeleteBut one has to keep on going...Principles are like a skeleton map of a country--you know whether you're going east or north.'
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