Famous quotes containing the words joseph conrad, joseph, conrad, merchant and/or navy:
“The seathis truth must be confessedhas no generosity. No display of manly qualitiescourage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulnesshas ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.”
—Joseph Conrad (18571924)
“Theres nothing as real as money.”
—Joseph L. Mankiewicz, U.S. director, screenwriter. Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Cicero (James Mason)
“Dont you forget whats divine in the Russian souland thats resignation.”
—Joseph Conrad (18571924)
“O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark,
The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant,
The captains, merchant bankers, eminent men of letters,
The generous patrons of art, the statesmen and the rulers,
Distinguished civil servants, chairmen of many committees,
Industrial lords and petty contractors, all go into the dark....”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“The Navy is the asylum for the perverse, the home of the unfortunate. Here the sons of adversity meet the children of calamity, and here the children of calamity meet the offspring of sin.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)