Quotes by Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad

In Poland born English writer

Lived from: 1857 - 1924

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 3 december 1857 Died: 3 august 1924

  • A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.
  • The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it.
  • How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?
  • The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
  • They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.
  • 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.
  • The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death.
  • There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.
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  • A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.
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  • A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
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  • A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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  • A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.
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  • A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.
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  • A word carries far - very far - deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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  • Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.
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  • An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
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  • Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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  • As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.
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  • Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
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  • 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.
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  • Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
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  • Going home must be like going to render an account.
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  • Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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  • Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy!
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?
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  • I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.
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What are the most famous quotes from Joseph Conrad?

The two most famous quotes from Joseph Conrad are:

  • "A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love."
  • "A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth."

When did Joseph Conrad live?

Joseph Conrad was born in 1857 and died in the year 1924.