Joseph Conrad Quotes & Quotations

Joseph Conrad Quotes

» The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

» Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

» A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

» Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

» There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

» An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

» Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

» They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

» As to honor -- you know -- it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

» 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.

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