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A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
Joseph Conrad
A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.
Joseph Conrad
Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.
Joseph Conrad
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Joseph Conrad
All idealisation makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity – it is to destroy it.
Joseph Conrad
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
Joseph Conrad
Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
Joseph Conrad
Facing it - always facing it - that's the way to get through. Face it!
Joseph Conrad
Happiness, happiness , the flavor is with you - with you alone - and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.
Joseph Conrad
He who wants to persuade should put his trust, not in the right argument, but in the right word.
Joseph Conrad
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Joseph Conrad
No man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.
Joseph Conrad
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
Joseph Conrad
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
Joseph Conrad
The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
Joseph Conrad
The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.
Joseph Conrad
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
Joseph Conrad
There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
Joseph Conrad
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
Joseph Conrad
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
Joseph Conrad
You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
Joseph Conrad
Your strength is but an accident arising from the weakness of others.
Joseph Conrad
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