Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
All a man can betray is his conscience.
Joseph Conrad
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Joseph Conrad
Age: 66 †
Born: 1857
Born: December 3
Died: 1924
Died: August 3
Author
Autobiographer
Essayist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Berdichev
Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski
Betrayed
Betrayal
Betray
Conscience
Men
More quotes by Joseph Conrad
All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
Joseph Conrad
It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
Joseph Conrad
Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
Joseph Conrad
Yet, when one thinks of it, diplomacy without force is a but a rotten reed to lean upon.
Joseph Conrad
The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
Joseph Conrad
In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.
Joseph Conrad
Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
Joseph Conrad
The artist appeals to that part of our being...which is a gift and not an acquisition - and, therefore, more permanently enduring.
Joseph Conrad
I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make dspair pause. For in truth, we who are creatures of impulse, are creatures of despair.
Joseph Conrad
For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
Joseph Conrad
I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life.
Joseph Conrad
Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy
Joseph Conrad
You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
Joseph Conrad
Let a fool be made serviceable according to his folly.
Joseph Conrad
The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky--seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.
Joseph Conrad
All creative art is magic , is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of mankind , pinned down by the conditions of its existence to the earnest consideration of the most insignificant tides of reality .
Joseph Conrad
They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares.
Joseph Conrad
We can never cease to be ourselves.
Joseph Conrad
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Joseph Conrad
Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy!
Joseph Conrad