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.

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.

Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.

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.

For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to...