People
- Blackford Oakes, the fictional protagonist in a series of books by William F. Buckley, Jr.
- Charles Minor Blackford (1833–1903), an American lawyer
- Hosea Blackford, a fictional character in books by Harry Turtledove
- Isaac Blackford (1786–1859), an American judge and politician
- Paul Blackford, a British musician
- Richard Blackford (born 1954), an English composer
- Russell Blackford, an Australian writer, philosopher, and critic
- Steven Blackford (1977–2004), an American wrestler
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“Let’s holler and ask him if he won’t prescribe
For all humanity a complete rest
From all this wagery. But what’s the use
Of asking any sympathy of him?
That class of people don’t know what work is....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“... people are almost always better than their neighbours think they are.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)