92 Quotations by Joseph Conrad
- 1. A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

- 2. A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

- 3. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out in ...

- 4. A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.

- 5. A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natur ...

- 6. A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, ...

- 7. A word carries far -- very far -- deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through sp ...

- 8. All a man can betray is his conscience.

- 9. All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

- 10. An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the i ...

- 11. Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in eve ...

- 12. As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his pr ...

- 13. As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wa ...

- 14. As to honor -- you know -- it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It ...

- 15. Being a woman is a difficult trade, since it consists principally of dealing with men

- 16. Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

- 17. But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom onl ...

- 18. Criticism: that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

- 19. Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of si ...

- 20. Don't talk to me of your Archimedes' lever. He was an absentminded person with a mathematical imagin ...

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