As to honor – you know – it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.
As to honor – you know – it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.
Author: Joseph Conrad
Truth of a modest sort I can promise you and also sincerity. That complete praiseworthy sincerity which while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
Truth of a modest sort I can promise you and also sincerity. That complete praiseworthy sincerity which while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.
It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.
A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.
A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope to love – and to put its trust in life.
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope to love – and to put its trust in life.