John Ford quotes:

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

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

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

How did I get to Hollywood? By train.

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

Electronics is clearly the winner of the day.

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

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.

Delay in vengeance gives a heavier blow

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.

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.

Revenge proves its own executioner.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Delay in vengeance delivers a heavier blow.

Revenge proves itself to be its own executioner.

Busy opinion is an idle fool.

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

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

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

When in doubt, make a western.

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

Love is a tyrant, resisted.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Diamonds cut diamonds.

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.

Revenge proves it's own executioner.

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

Tis as manlike to bear extremities as godlike to forgive.

Truth is child of Time.

He hath shook hands with time.

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

Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it.