"It is respectable to have illusions - and……" — Joseph Conrad
"It is respectable to have illusions - and safe - and profitable, and dull"
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235 Quotes by Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad has 235 quotes on this site.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which…
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.
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The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.
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Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
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The last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends,…
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It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when he is human,…
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What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a…
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Things and men have always a certain sense, a certain side by which they must be got hold of if…
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A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.
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More Dull Quotes
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The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull.
— Kevyn Aucoin
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Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.
— John James Audubon
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It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance,…
— David Bailey
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I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as…
— Tallulah Bankhead
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Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you…
— William Bernbach
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Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
— Aphra Behn
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With dates I like to cater a girl. We do whatever she likes. If she was open to what I…
— Chris Brown
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Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.
— Pearl S. Buck
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To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.
— Charles Bukowski
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If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that…
— Barbara Bush
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The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.
— Sid Caesar
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What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
— Eldridge Cleaver
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