Joseph Conrad Quotes
1857–1924 England
Joseph Conrad (3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish writer, working in England, regarded as one of the greatest novelists in the English language.
- England
- Essayists
- Novelists
- Short story writers
Also known as: Conrad, Joseph
80 quotes
A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom.
The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.
Running all over the sea trying to get behind the weather.
Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.
I am too firm in my consciousness of the marvelous to be ever fascinated by the mere supernatural.
Attribution
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