Joseph Conrad/merchant Navy

Famous quotes containing the words joseph conrad, conrad, merchant and/or navy:

    “How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?”
    —Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)

    “It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.”
    —Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)

    “Bid her paint till day of doom,
    To this favour she must come.
    Bid the merchant gather wealth,
    The usurer exact by stealth,
    The proud man beat it from his thought,
    Yet to this shape all must be brought.”
    —Francis Beaumont (1584-1616)

    “We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.”
    —Wendell Mayes, U.S. screenwriter. Otto Preminger. CINCPAC II (Henry Fonda)