Quotes Tagged With :conrad

Principles? Principles won’t do. Acquisitions, clothes, pretty rags—rags that would fly off at the....

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

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

Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our....

Your name?"The movements of the man's mouth didn't quite match what he was saying, so seeing him speak....

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

In the outworks of our lives, we were almost strangers, but we shared a certain outlook on human life....

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

It was a wonderful experience. She mistrusted his very slumbers--and she seemed to think I could tell....

He told me he was used to getting what he wanted.