Illusions Quote by Joseph Conrad

The Man who says he can, and the man who says he can not.. Are both correct

— Confucius

Only the man who says no is free

— Herman Melville

When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.

— John Steinbeck

“I am quite willing to be the blind instrument of higher ends. To give one's life for the cause is nothing. But to have…

— Joseph Conrad

“No man engaged in a work he does not like can preserve many saving illusions about himself. The distaste, the absence of glamour, extend…

— Joseph Conrad

For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early, and the human race come to an end.

— Joseph Conrad

When a man says he doesn't understand a woman it's because he won't take the trouble.

— Edith Wharton

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

— Otto von Bismarck

“In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done, quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.”

— Anonymous

A man who says something different from the normal talk always appear to others to be running ahead, apart and fast even when he…

— Anuj Somany

The man who says that he does not deserve his wife is probably right, but not for the reasons he thinks.

— Lawrence Fagg

I see him across the street, the blind man, and now he says he can find his way. He knows where he is going,…

— Denise Levertov