Leslie Ford Quotes

More people have been ruined by their upright friends than ever have been by their enemies!

You can always tell duty. It's what you don't want to do
it's what you fight against inside you. Duty's when you realize how it'll hurt other people and you choose between that and what would be easiest for you.

Her Dream Prince, Gee Gee, was, then, and of course still might be, though I'd always thought of a Dream Prince as having more hair and less avoirdupois.

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.

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.

If he hadn't been looking at Phil and had been looking at Viola Kersey he would have been a surprised young man. There was a look of startled dismay on her face as she realized what she'd done. And she didn't like it. For one instant the appealing little woman looked for all the world like the household variety of virago who's sweet as all get out as long as guests are present and ready to snatch the family bald-headed as soon as the door is closed.

A city where the Capitol Dome, perforated like a kitchen colander, is the symbol of how secrets are kept ...

It's hard to confine an irrational woman in a rational pattern, so I had no idea really what was in her mind.

Men ruin cars. That's one of the things every woman knows.

If you know the dark, you find it has a light of its own to let you see.

It is only fair to admit, however, that my batting average in the crystal ball league is point, zero, zero, zero.

One of the pleasant things about you is that you're entirely predictable because you never learn. I've told you before, and I'm telling you again, that people who murder other people are dangerous to be around. You're charming, my dear, and sometimes you act like an awful fool. Someday it'll be you that doesn't wake up at the foot of some stone steps. Those are terms a first-grader ought to be able to understand--won't you see what you can make of them?

He had a fascinating technique of gnawing his cigar from one corner of his mouth to the other, as if his teeth were equipped with trolley tracks, and suddenly grabbing it out and gesticulating wit it before he jammed it back.

There's nothing harder to stop than somebody who wants to believe a miracle.