Joseph Conrad Quotes
Born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, Joseph Conrad was a Polish-born British novelist, writing in English, while living in England. Many critics regard him as one of the greatest novelists in the English language.
(1857 - 1924)
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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.
[Work]
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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 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 modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.
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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.
[Action]
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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All one's work might have been better done; but this is the sort of reflection a worker must put aside courageously if he doesn't mean every one of his conceptions to remain for ever a private vision, an evanescent reverie.
[Work]
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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.
[Action]
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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 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.
[Action]
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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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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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Caricature: putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.
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Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
[Criticism]
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Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.
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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.
[Nature]
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Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
[Courage]
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