Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conradwas a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. He joined the British merchant marine in 1878, and was granted British nationality in 1886. Though he did not speak English fluently until he was in his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst...
NationalityPolish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth3 December 1857
CountryPoland
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
The last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
The blight of futility that lies in wait for men's speeches had fallen upon our conversation and made it a thing of empty sounds.
All roads are long which lead to one's heart's desire.
Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
Ah! These commercial interests -- spoiling the finest life under the sun. Why must the sea be used for trade -- and for war as well?...It would have been so much nicer just to sail about, with here and there a port and a bit of land to stretch one's legs on, buy a few books and get a change of cooking for a while.
The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.