718 Quotes by Joseph Conrad

Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.

I sit down religiously every morning, I sit down for eight hours every day - and the sitting down is all.

His eyes were naturally heavy; he had an air of having wallowed, fully dressed, all day on an unmade bed.

I don't like work no man does but I like what is in the work the chance to find yourself

Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.

The vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured the history of human conscience.

Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.

The future is of our own making - and the most striking characteristic of the century is just that development

I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality