All Joseph Conrad Quotes
- It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth. Born
- You must squeeze out of yourself every sensation, every thought, every image, - mercilessly, without reserve and without remorse: you must search the darkest corners… Aching
- You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And least of all… Adventure
- There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened… Any
- The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful… Asserting
- A man's most open actions have a secret side to them. Action
- The old river in its broad reach rested unruffled at the decline of day, after ages of good service done to the race that peopled… Age
- The dreams of men, the seed of commonwealth, the germs of empires. Commonwealth
- In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest,… Abomination
- When one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages--hate them to the death. Correct
- It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine. Funny
- The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return.… Across
- The word 'ivory' rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A taint of imbecile rapacity blew… Air
- A nickname may be the best record of a success. That's what I call putting the face of a joke upon the body of a… Best
- Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb… Back Door
- One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign… Changing
- Beyond the fence the forest stood up spectrally in the moonlight, and through the dim stir, through the faint sounds of that lamentable courtyard, the… Amazing
- We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen. All
- The hair of his face, on the contrary, carroty and flaming, resembled a growth of copper wire clipped short to the line of the lip;… Cheeks
- Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion. Care