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Leslie Ford
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“I suppose it's part of being a good politician to be able to spot the most important men in any group without outside assistance.”
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“The thing about George Barrol is that he's always putting his own and other people's feet into things that had best be left quite free of feet.”
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“More people have been ruined by their upright friends than ever have been by their enemies!”
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“It's you' friends that do you — you' enemies cain' get to you.”
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“Captain Callowhill's face had all the best features, I thought, of a brace of working ferrets.”
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“Men ruin cars. That's one of the things every woman knows.”
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“It's all right to be disillusioned, but you can't be disillusioning.”
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“Some people say he bounds about like a gazelle to prove his knees aren't stiff yet, but I think that's unfair. I think he was told it was gay and attractive and believed it.”
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“Nobody's ever decided what success is, out here.”
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“... a city where the Capitol Dome, perforated like a kitchen colander, is the symbol of how secrets are kept ...”
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“There's nothing harder to stop than somebody who wants to believe a miracle.”
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“In my book, anyone pretending he has no interest in money is either a fool or a knave.”
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“... bitterness hardly cares what food it eats.”
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“If you know the dark, you find it has a light of its own to let you see.”
Leslie Ford, U.S. writer, war correspondent
(1898 - 1983)
Real name: Zenith Jones Brown. She also wrote as David Frome and Brenda Conrad. (See quotations under David Frome.)