Joseph Conrad/merchant Navy

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

    “Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.”
    —Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)

    “Don’t you forget what’s divine in the Russian soul—and that’s resignation.”
    —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)

    “There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.”
    —Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)