Joseph Conrad
15 quotations
You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
Going home must be like going to render an account.
A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.
It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.