Joseph Conrad May Quotations

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

Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy

A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience.

The world of finance is a mysterious world in which, incredible as the fact may appear, evaporation precedes liquidation.

We are snared into doing things for which we get called names, and things for which we get hanged, and yet the spirit may well survive - survive the condemnations, survive the halter, by Jove! And there are things - they look small enough sometimes too - by which some of us are totally and completely undone.

A nickname may be the best record of a success. That's what I call putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.