No More Parades Quotes

“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

“That monstrosity you honour with your name - which is also mine, thank you!”
― 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

“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

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

“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