Joseph Conrad Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.”

“Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.”