All Joseph Conrad Quotes
- Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. Fame
- You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends. Foes
- The mind of man is capable of anything because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future All
- For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early, and the human race come to an end. Age
- The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. 'The Secret Agaent' (1907) Basket
- I don't like work - no man does - but I like what's in the work: the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -… Chance
- Any fool can carry on, but only the wise man knows how to shorten sail. Any
- All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward upon the miseries and credulities of mankind All
- It is respectable to have illusions - and safe - and profitable, and dull Dull
- Being a woman is a terribly task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. Consists