Some Do Not... Quotes

“If he had uttered the word “come” she would have followed him to the bitter ends of the earth; if he had said, “There is no hope,” she would have known the finality of despair.”
― Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not...

“She asked herself the eternal question – and she knew it to be the eternal question – whether no man and woman can ever leave it at the beautiful inclination.”
― Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not...

“If you live among dogs they'll think you've the motives of a dog. What other motives can they give you ?”
― Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not...

“But, in these later days, much greater convulsions had overwhelmed her. It sufficed for Tietjens to approach her to make her feel as if her whole body was drawn towards him as, being near a terrible height, you are drawn towards it. Great waves of blood rushed across her being as if physical forces as yet undiscovered or invented attracted the very fluid itself. The moon so draws the tides.”
― Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not...

“You and I are like two people . . .' He paused and began again more quickly: 'Do you know these soap advertisement signs that read differently from several angles? As you come up to them you read "Monkey's Soap"; if you look back when you've passed it's "Needs no Rinsing." . . . You and I are standing at different angles and though we both look at the same thing we read different messages. Perhaps if we stood side by side we should see yet third. . . . But I hope we respect each other.”
― Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not...

“It is, in fact, asking for trouble if you are more altruist than the society that surrounds you”
― Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not...

“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...

“My dear, it couldn’t have lasted for ever … But you’re a good man. And very clever… . You will get through….”
― Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not...

“You and I are like two people . . ." He paused and began again more quickly: "Do you know these soap advertisement signs that read differently from several angles? As you come up to them you read 'Monkey's Soap'; if you look back when you've passed it's 'Needs no Rinsing.' . . . You and I are standing at different angles and though we both look at the same thing we read different messages. Perhaps if we stood side by side we should see yet third. . . . But I hope we respect each other.”
― Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not...

“But why was he born to be a sort of lonely buffalo: outside the herd? Not artist: not soldier: not bureaucrat: not certainly indispensable anywhere: apparently not even sound in the eyes of these dim-minded specialists… An exact observer…”
― Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not...

“- A! Tę wojnę będzie warto zobaczyć... Żadnego pijanego rzucania się do gardeł bandytów-imbecyli...
- Moja matka by zwariowała! - powiedziała Sylwia.
- Bynajmniej - odparł. - To ją podnieci, o ile dożyje.”
― Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not...

“Jest pan zadziwiający, jak na mężczyznę, który stara się zachowywać jak ukwiał!”
― Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not...

“Przepraszam, że byłam dla pana nieuprzejma. Ale to naprawdę irytujące, że stoi się jak wypchany królik, podczas gdy mężczyzna odgrywa Prawdziwego Dżentelmena, chłodnego i zorganizowanego, z całą pozą ziemianina i wszystkim.”
― Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not...

“I Tietjens, który nie nienawidził nikogo, mając przed sobą prostolinijnego człowieka typu szkolnego kolegi, zaczął rozmyślać nad tym, jak to ludzkość traktowana jednostkowo była niemal zawsze sympatyczna, w swej masie zaś stawała się zjawiskiem ohydnym.”
― Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not...

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

“Człowiek nie musi żyć wśród mętów społeczeństwa, aby nie usłyszeć nic o mętach towarzystwa.”
― Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not...

“Dziwna to była przyjaźń, ale dziwność przyjaźni często gwarantuje jej trwałość.”
― Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not...