Joseph Conard Quotes

Most popular Joseph Conard Quotes

An elemental force is ruthlessly frank. - Joseph Conard quote.
An elemental force is ruthlessly frank.
— Joseph Conard
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. - Joseph Conard quote.
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
— Joseph Conard Lord Jim

vanity memory

Men are workers. If they are not, they are nothing. - Joseph Conard quote.
Men are workers. If they are not, they are nothing.
— Joseph Conard
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. - Joseph Conard quote.
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
— Joseph Conard Under Western Eyes

words

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. - Joseph Conard quote.
You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
— Joseph Conard
Gossip is that which no one claims to like—but everybody enjoys. - Joseph Conard quote.
Gossip is that which no one claims to like—but everybody enjoys.
— Joseph Conard

gossip

Exactitude in some small matters is the very soul of discipline. - Joseph Conard quote.
Exactitude in some small matters is the very soul of discipline.
— Joseph Conard
Facing it—always facing it—that's the way to get through. Face it! - Joseph Conard quote.
Facing it—always facing it—that's the way to get through. Face it!
— Joseph Conard

advisory courage

In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling the bloom. - Joseph Conard quote.
In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling the bloom.
— Joseph Conard The Arrow of Gold

memory

Don't you ever forget what's divine in the Russian soul—and that's resignation. - Joseph Conard quote.
Don't you ever forget what's divine in the Russian soul—and that's resignation.
— Joseph Conard Under Western Eyes

Russia

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway. - Joseph Conard quote.
A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.
— Joseph Conard The Mirror of the Sea

ships

What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace. - Joseph Conard quote.
What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.
— Joseph Conard
A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance. - Joseph Conard quote.
A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
— Joseph Conard A Personal Record

adventure

The sea never changes, and its works for all the talk of men are wrapped in mystery. - Joseph Conard quote.
The sea never changes, and its works for all the talk of men are wrapped in mystery.
— Joseph Conard

Yachting

I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. - Joseph Conard quote.
I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself.
— Joseph Conard

work

Nothing lays itself open to the charge of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth. - Joseph Conard quote.
Nothing lays itself open to the charge of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.
— Joseph Conard

exaggeration truth

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. - Joseph Conard quote.
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
— Joseph Conard A Personal Record

ambition

Woe to him whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life! - Joseph Conard quote.
Woe to him whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!
— Joseph Conard
The mind of man is capable of anything, because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future. - Joseph Conard quote.
The mind of man is capable of anything, because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future.
— Joseph Conard
There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps may roam. - Joseph Conard quote.
There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps may roam.
— Joseph Conard
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. - Joseph Conard quote.
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
— Joseph Conard dame de compagnie

evil

It is not the clear-sighted who lead the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm mental fog. - Joseph Conard quote.
It is not the clear-sighted who lead the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm mental fog.
— Joseph Conard Victory: An Island Tale

achievement

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence. - Joseph Conard quote.
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
— Joseph Conard The Mirror of the Sea

purpose of life aspiration life as a journey

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 Conard quote.
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 Conard

courage women

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

action artists

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat? - Joseph Conard quote.
How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?
— Joseph Conard Lord Jim

fear

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart.  There must be a moral bond first.  All a man can betray is his conscience. - Joseph Conard quote.
They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart.  There must be a moral bond first.  All a man can betray is his conscience.
— Joseph Conard Under Western Eyes

betrayal

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back anymore — the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men. - Joseph Conard quote.
I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back anymore — the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men.
— Joseph Conard
Fifteen years of unbroken silence...testify sufficiently to my respect for criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters. - Joseph Conard quote.
Fifteen years of unbroken silence...testify sufficiently to my respect for criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
— Joseph Conard A Personal Record

criticism

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 Conard quote.
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 Conard
There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all of the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery. - Joseph Conard quote.
There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all of the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
— Joseph Conard Lord Jim

moon

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 Conard quote.
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 Conard A Personal Record

persuasion

To a teacher of language 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. - Joseph Conard quote.
To a teacher of language 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.
— Joseph Conard Under Western Eyes

language

The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom: to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition — and, therefore, more permanently enduring. - Joseph Conard quote.
The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom: to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition — and, therefore, more permanently enduring.
— Joseph Conard
Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past.  They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirl's of the ship's wake. - Joseph Conard quote.
Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past.  They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirl's of the ship's wake.
— Joseph Conard The Mirror of the Sea
What all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
— Joseph Conard Under Western Eyes

inner peace

I don't like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work—the chance to find yourself.
— Joseph Conard Heart of Darkness

work

The mind of man is capable of anything — because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future.
— Joseph Conard
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 Conard A Personal Record

imagination