All Joseph Conrad Quotes
- As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of… Action
- Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters. Criticism
- Going home must be like going to render an account. Account
- I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for… Chance
- A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love. Accorded
- A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway. Doe
- Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. Any
- As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs. Fine
- Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation. Divine
- Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin. Coin
- To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence. Aspiration
- He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always… Arguing
- Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible… Conscious
- Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength… Ability
- To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking… Animal
- For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been… Accomplice
- Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. Art
- My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is,… Achieve
- His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded… Altogether
- Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in… Audacity
- Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others. Accident
- We live as we dream--alone.... Alone
- We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday. Darkness
- He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon him.… Abomination
- Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations,… All