John Ford quotes

" You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart. " # Speakers and Speaking # Heart # Love

" There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford. " # Grace # Freedom # Power

" There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints. " # Morality # Judgment and Judges # Arts and Artists

" We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in. " # People, Other # Portraits # Literature

" You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses. " # Politicians and Politics # Love # Marriage

" Delay in vengeance delivers a heavier blow. " # Vengeance # Revenge # Procrastination

" I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then. " # Quotations

" It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor. " # Quotations

" Delay in vengeance gives a heavier blow” " # Quotations