Quotes Tagged With :conrad

In a dispassionate view the ardour for reform, improvement for virtue, for knowledge, and even beauty....

The punter sweated on top of Marina, his lips all over her young body, his tongue slipping out from rows....

After the discovery of spectral analysis no one trained in physics could doubt the problem of the atom....

For the vision of a novelist is both complex and specialised; complex, because behind his characters....

The great object is to find the theory of the matter [of X-rays] before anyone else, for nearly every....

I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror....

Look to the past to see what the future holds.

I was, a near grown man, sat in his dank, dark and rickety digs, feverishly hovering about the glare....

For a more than miffed Midnight, fate was for emperors, fools and soppy lovers: - fate was the self-important....

He is romantic—romantic,” he repeated. “And that is very bad—very bad. . . . Very good, too,”....