Joseph Conrad World Quotations

Youth is insolent; it is its right – its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is a defiance, is an insolence…

The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

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

Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.