Parade S End Quotes

#1. The grand jury's job is not to weigh the evidence from both sides; it is only to decide whether there is enough evidence on one side to bring a person to trial.

Donella Meadows

#2. We don't screw up by saying yes to the wrong things; we screw up by letting all the floats in the parade pass us by and never jumping on one of them for a ride to the end.

Annie F. Downs

#3. To wrap up the idea of 'Parade's End' in a sentence or two, I would say it's a love story in which we see a man with two women, and we know what's attractive about them. And we know why and what they feel about him.

Tom Stoppard

#4. 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

#5. Being a miner he sat on his heels more comfortably than on a chair

Ford Madox Ford

#6. I am trying to bend the laws of time so I can get here five minutes earlier

Cath Crowley

#7. Bold and bright, a trilogy of happiness would continue for a summer's duration and into autumn. It would then be brought abruptly to an end, for the brightness had shown suffering the way.
Hard times were coming.
Like a parade.

Markus Zusak

#8. 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

#9. Like many people, I only knew of Ford Madox Ford through a book called 'The Good Soldier,' which is everybody's favorite Ford Madox Ford if they have one, but I came to read 'Parade's End' when it was suggested via Damien Timmer of Mammoth Screen.

Tom Stoppard

#10. Isn't a gay Mormon like an oxymoron?'
'Do I look like an oxymoron to you?'
'An oxymormon.

David Ebershoff

#11. There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade's End is one of them.

W. H. Auden

#12. I never went to bed in my life and I never ate a meal in my life without saying a prayer. I know my prayers have been answered thousands of times, and I know that I never said a prayer in my life without something good coming of it.

Jack Dempsey

#13. 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

#14. It will be celebrated ... with pomp and parade ... bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.

John Adams

#15. The bourgeoisie is so tediously self-righteous.

Loretta Chase

#16. Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn.

Greek Proverb

#17. 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

#18. Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily born, and as easily killed off.

John Banville

#19. I've never felt a strong urge to rush into Hollywood, so I bided my time and waited till I had a decent body of work to show people, the icing on the cake being 'Salmon Fishing' and 'Parade's End.'

Tom Mison

#20. That monstrosity you honour with your name - which is also mine, thank you!

Ford Madox Ford

#21. 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

#22. Sometimes the best way to save someone is to walk-away.

Bryant McGill

#23. We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.

Epictetus

#24. Witnesses parade in, there is the travesty of a trial, and Ercole meets his end in a refreshingly simple mass stabbing.

Thomas Pynchon

#25. 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