Best 32 quotes of John Ford on MyQuotes

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.

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

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.

Busy opinion is an idle fool.

Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it.

Diamonds cut diamonds.

Electronics is clearly the winner of the day.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Love is a tyrant, resisted.

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

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

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

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

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.

Revenge proves itself to be its own executioner.

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

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

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.

They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings.

Tis as manlike to bear extremities as godlike to forgive.

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

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.

When in doubt, make a western.

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

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

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.

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

Beauty that clothes the outside of our face, is cursed if it not be clothed with grace.