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“What mysteries we are, human, vampire, monster, mortal, that we can love and hate simultaneously, and that emotions of all sorts might not parade for what they are not.”
― Anne Rice, Merrick

“That monstrosity you honour with your name - which is also mine, thank you!”
― Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades

“She warned him that, if he got killed, she should cut down the great cedar at the south-west corner of Groby. It kept all the light out of the principal drawing-room and the bedrooms above it.... He winced: he certainly winced at that. She regretted that she had said it. It was along other lines that she desired to make him wince.”
― Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades

“The exact eye: exact observation: it was a man's work. The only
work for a man. Why then were artists soft: effeminate: not men at all:
whilst the army officer, who had the inexact mind of the schoolteacher,
was a manly man? Quite a manly man: until he became an old woman!”
― Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not...

“It was probably indecent to think of a corpse as impotent. But he was, very likely. That would be why his wife had taken up with the prize-fighter Red Evans Williams of Castell Goch.”
― Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades

“being a miner he sat on his heels more comfortably than on a chair”
― Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades

“But always, at moments when his mind was like a blind octopus, squirming in an agony of knife-cuts, she would drop in that accusation.”
― Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades

“But to betray her with battalion... That is against decency, against Nature...And for him, Christopher tietjens, to come down to the level of the men you met here!”
― Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades

“It was detestable to him to be in control of another human being â€� as detestable as it would have been to be himself a prisoner.”
― Ford Maddox Ford

“Christopher Tietjens is a sad sorry bastard who just refuses to get out of the way on the oncoming train of change.”
― Ada Maria Soto

“W przedziale panowaÅ‚ ledwo uchwytny, higieniczny zapach nadzwyczajnego lakieru, a pociÄ…g biegÅ‚ gÅ‚adko niczym (później Tietjens przypomniaÅ‚ sobie to porównanie) brytyjskie papiery wartoÅ›ciowe gwarantowane przez rzÄ…d.”
― Ford Madox Ford

“Dziwna to byÅ‚a przyjaźń, ale dziwność przyjaźni czÄ™sto gwarantuje jej trwaÅ‚ość.”
― Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not...

“CzÅ‚owiek nie musi żyć wÅ›ród mÄ™tów spoÅ‚eczeÅ„stwa, aby nie usÅ‚yszeć nic o mÄ™tach towarzystwa.”
― Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not...

“Chodź, napijemy siÄ™ ginu. Oto prawdziwa odpowiedź na wszystkie parszywe problemy.”
― Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not...

“I Tietjens, który nie nienawidziÅ‚ nikogo, majÄ…c przed sobÄ… prostolinijnego czÅ‚owieka typu szkolnego kolegi, zaczÄ…Å‚ rozmyÅ›lać nad tym, jak to ludzkość traktowana jednostkowo byÅ‚a niemal zawsze sympatyczna, w swej masie zaÅ› stawaÅ‚a siÄ™ zjawiskiem ohydnym.”
― Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not...

“Przepraszam, że byÅ‚am dla pana nieuprzejma. Ale to naprawdÄ™ irytujÄ…ce, że stoi siÄ™ jak wypchany królik, podczas gdy mężczyzna odgrywa Prawdziwego Dżentelmena, chÅ‚odnego i zorganizowanego, z caÅ‚Ä… pozÄ… ziemianina i wszystkim.”
― Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not...

“Jest pan zadziwiajÄ…cy, jak na mężczyznÄ™, który stara siÄ™ zachowywać jak ukwiaÅ‚!”
― Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not...

“- A! TÄ™ wojnÄ™ bÄ™dzie warto zobaczyć... Å»adnego pijanego rzucania siÄ™ do gardeÅ‚ bandytów-imbecyli...
- Moja matka by zwariowała! - powiedziała Sylwia.
- Bynajmniej - odparÅ‚. - To jÄ… podnieci, o ile dożyje.”
― Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not...