718 Quotes by Joseph Conrad

Yet, when one thinks of it, diplomacy without force is a but a rotten reed to lean upon.

There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies...

As to honour you know it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

The artist in his calling of interpreter creates because he must. He is so much of a voice that, for him, silence is like death

Kisses are the remnants of paradise.

Don't talk to me of your Archimedes' lever. He was an absentminded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

That's why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.

The revolutionary spirit is mightily convenient in this: that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas

The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. Revolution, legality--counter-moves in the same game; forms of idleness at bottom identical.