Top 54 Quotes by Joseph Conrad

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

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

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

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