Joseph Conrad Quotes

Polish - Novelist December 3, 1857 - August 3, 1924

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life. - Joseph Conrad

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life. Joseph Conrad

Life, Love, Heart, Hope, Man, Trust

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog. Joseph Conrad

Great, Fog, Blessed, World, Warm, Rule

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea. Joseph Conrad

Life, Sea, Nothing, More, Than, Enticing

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

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

Women, Woman, Men, Difficult, Task

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense. Joseph Conrad

Power, Trust, Argument, Right, Sound

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. Joseph Conrad

Alone, Men, Evil, Belief, Capable, Quite

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird. Joseph Conrad

History, Art, Bird, World, Song, Never

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. Joseph Conrad

Loneliness, Alone, Memory, Lonely, True

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters. Joseph Conrad

Flower, Garden, Criticism, Personal

Going home must be like going to render an account. Joseph Conrad

Home, Going Home, Going, Like, Must

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This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. Joseph Conrad

Nature, Man, Butterfly, Mud, Never, Dirt

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook. Joseph Conrad

Passion, Man, Action, Friends, Political

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth. Joseph Conrad

Truth, Face, Body, Joke, Caricature

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence. Joseph Conrad

Path, Human, Human Being, Existence, Him

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life. Joseph Conrad

Life, Strength, Nature, Man, Faith, Land

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends. Joseph Conrad

Truth, Hands, Friends, You, I Can, Sort

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot. Joseph Conrad

Teacher, Time, Man, Words, Animal, World

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham. Joseph Conrad

Love, Love Is, Impossible, Feelings

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. Joseph Conrad

Man, Friends, Judge, You, Well, Shall

In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility. Joseph Conrad

Beyond, Others, Move, Order, Away, Our

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it. Joseph Conrad

Face, Way, Always, Through, Get, Facing

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims. Joseph Conrad

Revolution, Intelligent, Noble, Movement

It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine. Joseph Conrad

Strength, Wine, Through, Out, Indecent

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage. Joseph Conrad

Courage, Man, Woman, She, Want, Will

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys. Joseph Conrad

Gossip, Everybody, Like, Claims

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. Joseph Conrad

Sea, Man, Never, Human, Friendly, Been

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