Top 29 Parade's End Quotes
#1. 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
#2. There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade's End is one of them.
W. H. Auden
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. Witnesses parade in, there is the travesty of a trial, and Ercole meets his end in a refreshingly simple mass stabbing.
Thomas Pynchon
#7. Our thoughts affect our agreement with reality, our story we tell ourselves. IF you want to change your story, start with your thoughts.
Tony Curl
#8. The artist uses his reason to discover an answering reason in everything he sees.
Flannery O'Connor
#10. 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
#11. THE MAN. Can't they realize that mankind was founded on two basic principles? Religion and Death? The one motivates the other. Both motivate the man!
Candice Bergen
#12. That monstrosity you honour with your name - which is also mine, thank you!
Ford Madox Ford
#13. 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
#14. All men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that no particular sect or society of Christians ought to be favored or established by law in preference to others.
George Mason
#15. It will be celebrated ... with pomp and parade ... bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.
John Adams
#16. 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
#17. Your first projects aren't the greatest things in the world, and they may have no money value, they may go nowhere, but that is how you learn - you put so much effort into making something right if it is for yourself.
Steve Wozniak
#18. Death's dry bones glowed with light in the erotic dark but he woke not nor felt the two warm bodies merge; the male worm then took heart and in his wife's ear whispered: With one sweet kiss, dear wife, we've conquered conquering Death!
Nikos Kazantzakis
#19. 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
#20. I'd grown up loving English films. I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid.
Alessandro Nivola
#21. 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
#22. It is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the job.
Barry Goldwater
#23. Being a miner he sat on his heels more comfortably than on a chair
Ford Madox Ford
#24. 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
#25. To cement my point, Dire Straits came on and after Perry proclaimed her sudden (and surprising) love for the band, the douchefucker stood up and asked her to dance like he was a Cajun Rhett Butler.
Karina Halle
#27. I'm going to peel his skin from his sorry body and feed it to him until he chokes to death. And I'm going to make sure he feels every second of excruciating pain. Nobody
K. Webster
#28. Corum knew that he was mad, in Vadhagh terms. But he supposed that he was sane enough in Mabden terms. And this was, after all, now a Mabden world. He must learn to accept its peculiar disorders as normal, if he were going to survive.
Michael Moorcock
#29. 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
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