Heart of darkness Quote by Joseph Conrad Download Open image ““The snake had charmed me”” — Joseph Conrad ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Heart of darkness Page-11
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“So that's how you charm the cobra," I quip. He smiles devilishly. "If you really want to see what effect you have on my… — M. Leighton Copy Share Image
“It was baffling. These creatures. The were fraught and frayed win their desire. A snake would never poison itself, but these folk made an… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“A snake must be treated as a snake, forgiving it every time it showed you its fangs, will not transform into a garland of… — Himmilicious Copy Share Image
“What is the world coming to, when you can't trust a whore named Snake?” — Edward Conlon Copy Share Image
“I might be ready to embrace a snake, but, if one comes to bite you, I should kill it and protect you.” — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Ya were going to turn me into a rat? Had I known that I wouldn’t have tried to turn ya into a snake.” — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
“He wouldn’t have been surprised if it had died of boredom itself — no company except stupid people drumming their fingers on the glass… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“A fool, what with sheer fright and fine sentiments, is always safe.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The mind of man is capable of anything-because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Perhaps on some quiet night the tremor of far-off drums, sinking, swelling, a tremor vast, faint; a sound weird, appealing, suggestive and wild -… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“All that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Thieving was not a sheer absurdity. It was a form of human industry, perverse indeed, but still an industry exercised in an industrious world;… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
“The social organization of Heart of Darkness – captured in the corporate culture of the ‘Company’ – is a metonym for modernity. It is… — Stephen Ross Copy Share Image
“They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force—nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness. — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
When I think of the standing, the importance and the erudition of all these people who see nothing about racism in Heart of Darkness,… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“(After relaying horrific stories that have been shared in popular news.) All of these stories are true. The conflict has seen acts of cannibalism… — Jason K. Stearns Copy Share Image
When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used Heart of… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
The word 'ivory' rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A taint of imbecile rapacity… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“I wanted adventures. I wanted to go up the Nung river to the heart of darkness in Cambodia. I wanted to ride out into… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“Trees, trees, millions of trees, massive, immense, running up high; and at their foot, hugging the bank against the stream, crept the little begrimed… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“It was several decades later that I encountered that footnote, and with it my own ignorance of the Congo’s early history. Then it occurred… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
