All Joseph Conrad Quotes
- All one's work might have been better done; but this is a sort of reflection a worker must put aside courageously if he doesn't mean… All
- All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising. All
- The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to… Absolute
- Do not talk to me of Archimedes' lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands my respect, but I have no… Absent
- Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of… Complete
- You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence. Breathe
- God is for men, and religion for women. God
- I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make dspair pause. For… Creatures
- As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement. Achievement
- All a man can betray is his conscience. All
- The interior deprives men of their senses. Here, the eerie stillness of the wilderness and the darkness of night render the men both deaf and… Blind
- The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and not… Acquisition
- Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing. Fiction
- Society was calling to its accomplished child to come, to be taken care of, to be instructed, to be judged, to be condemned; it called… Accomplished
- The mysteries of a universe made of drops of fire and clods of mud do not concern us in the least. The fate of humanity… Anxious
- The condemned social order has not been built up on paper and ink, and I don't fancy that a combination of paper and ink will… Been
- We are snared into doing things for which we get called names, and things for which we get hanged, and yet the spirit may well… Called
- The artist appeals to that part of our being...which is a gift and not an acquisition - and, therefore, more permanently enduring. Acquisition
- The artist in his calling of interpreter creates because he must. He is so much of a voice that, for him, silence is like death Artist
- The vision seemed to enter the house with me-the stretcher, the phantom-bearers, the wild crowd of obedient worshippers, the gloom of the forests, the glitter… Bearers