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No More Parades QUOTES

1 " 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

2 " 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

3 " That monstrosity you honour with your name - which is also mine, thank you! "

― Ford Madox Ford , No More Parades

4 " 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

5 " 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

6 " being a miner he sat on his heels more comfortably than on a chair "

― Ford Madox Ford , No More Parades