Top quotes by John Ford

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart. Votes: 12

Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth Votes: 9

Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry? Votes: 9

How did I get to Hollywood? By train. Votes: 8

It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor. Votes: 7

Electronics is clearly the winner of the day. Votes: 7

Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality. Votes: 7

Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh. Votes: 6

Delay in vengeance gives a heavier blow Votes: 6

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes. Votes: 6

I like, as a director and a spectator, simple, direct, frank films. Nothing disgusts me more than snobbism, mannerism, technical gratuity... and, most of all, intellectualism. Votes: 5

Revenge proves its own executioner. Votes: 5

I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then. Votes: 4

Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease. Votes: 4

I didn't show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk. Votes: 3

To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am not one of them. Votes: 3

Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness. Votes: 3

What is done, is done: Spend not the time in tears, but seek for justice. Votes: 3

Delay in vengeance delivers a heavier blow. Votes: 3

Revenge proves itself to be its own executioner. Votes: 3

Busy opinion is an idle fool. Votes: 3

Whilst we strive To live most free, we're caught in our own toils. Votes: 3

Not only does God play dice with the universe, He's using loaded dice. Votes: 3

Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear; the sweetest freedom is an honest heart. Votes: 2

When in doubt, make a western. Votes: 0

Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters. Votes: 0

Love is a tyrant, resisted. Votes: 0

I love making pictures but I don't like talking about them. Votes: 0

Why, I hold fate Clasped in my fist, and could command the course Of time's eternal motion, hadst thou been One thought more steady than an ebbing sea. Votes: 0

They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings. Votes: 0

The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth, Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet, Sinews of concord, earthly immortality, Eternity of pleasures. Votes: 0

Titles of honor add not to his worth, who is himself an honor of his titles. Votes: 0

Diamonds cut diamonds. Votes: 0

A bachelor May thrive by observation on a little, A single life's no burthen: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and will require A double maintenance. Votes: 0

Revenge proves it's own executioner. Votes: 0

Love is dead; let lovers' eyes, Locked in endless dreams, The extremes of all extremes, Ope no more, for now Love dies. Votes: 0

Tis as manlike to bear extremities as godlike to forgive. Votes: 0

Truth is child of Time. Votes: 0

He hath shook hands with time. Votes: 0

The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes. Votes: 0

Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it. Votes: 0