Tag: Joseph Conrad

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.

Joseph Conrad

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

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

God is for men and religion for women.

Joseph Conrad

It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself the face of pain.

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

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Joseph Conrad

A man’s most open actions have a secret side to them.

Joseph Conrad

Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade, since it consists principally of dealing with men.

Joseph Conrad