Author: Joseph Conrad

Quotes

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

- Joseph Conrad

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.

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.

- Joseph Conrad

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

- Joseph Conrad

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

- Joseph Conrad

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.

- Joseph Conrad

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.

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.

- Joseph Conrad

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

- Joseph Conrad

Going home must be like going to render an account.

Going home must be like going to render an account.

- Joseph Conrad

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.

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.

- Joseph Conrad

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