Famous Quotes from ...
Joseph Conrad
- It's queer how out of touch with the truth women are. They live in a world of their own, and there has never been anything like it, and never can be. It is too beautiful altogether, and if they were to set it up it would go to pieces before the first sunset.... Joseph Conrad {view}
- There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten -- before the end is told -- even if there happens to be any end to it.... Joseph Conrad {view}
- Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.... Joseph Conrad {view}
- Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.... Joseph Conrad {view}
- The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary: men alone are quite capable of every wickedness... Joseph Conrad {view}
- I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.... Joseph Conrad {view}