They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Sometimes it takes all my resolution and power of self-control to refrain from butting my head against the wall. I want to… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you'll have to do something for it. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Here's the main page of motivational quotes, if you want a different topic. Gossip is what no one claims to like, but… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Things and men have always a certain sense, a certain side by which they must be got hold of if one wants… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“A fool, what with sheer fright and fine sentiments, is always safe.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The mind of man is capable of anything-because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Perhaps on some quiet night the tremor of far-off drums, sinking, swelling, a tremor vast, faint; a sound weird, appealing, suggestive and wild -… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“All that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Thieving was not a sheer absurdity. It was a form of human industry, perverse indeed, but still an industry exercised in an industrious world;… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
