Quotes about Joseph Conrad

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but...

#Joseph Conrad

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

#Joseph Conrad

Going home must be like going to render an account.

#Joseph Conrad

For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have...

#Joseph Conrad

You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity....

#Joseph Conrad

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

#Joseph Conrad

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror?...

#Joseph Conrad

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy...

#Joseph Conrad

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being...

#Joseph Conrad

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a...

#Joseph Conrad

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but...

#Joseph Conrad

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

#Joseph Conrad