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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with J >> Quotes By Joseph Conrad |
| Quote #1: | "It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth." |
| Quote #2: | "Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life." |
| Quote #3: | "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." |
| Quote #4: | "How does one kill fear, I wonder How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by the spectral throat" |
| Quote #5: | "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." |
| Quote #6: | "Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of illusions." |
| Quote #7: | "All a man can betray is his conscience." |
| Quote #8: | "The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." |
| Quote #9: | "Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow." |
| Quote #10: | "Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality." |
| Quote #11: | "You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends." |
| Quote #12: | "The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future." |
| Quote #13: | "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." |
| Quote #14: | "The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds." |
| Quote #15: | "Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it." |
| Quote #16: | "I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace." |
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