All Joseph Conrad Quotes
- Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from… Blade
- The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves,… Complexion
- It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog. Accomplished
- The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. Accomplice
- A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the… Air
- 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