92 Quotations by Joseph Conrad
- 61. The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it i ...
- 62. The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed kno ...
- 63. The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with ...
- 64. The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depen ...
- 65. The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regard ...
- 66. The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intellige ...
- 67. The sea -- this truth must be confessed -- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities -- coura ...
- 68. The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
- 69. The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, d ...
- 70. There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; ea ...
- 71. There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetness, which, in its universal exte ...
- 72. There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
- 73. There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembod ...
- 74. They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond fi ...
- 75. They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything.
- 76. This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on h ...
- 77. To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man app ...
- 78. To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts.... I su ...
- 79. To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and temp ...
- 80. Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity ...
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