Quote by Joseph Conrad
A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth. – Joseph Conrad

Other quotes by Joseph Conrad

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot. – Joseph Conrad

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teacher
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There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery. – Joseph Conrad

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Halloween
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Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life. – Joseph Conrad

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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side. – Joseph Addison

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We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. – Winston Churchill

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For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine. – Samuel Butler

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Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man. – John Updike

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I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms. – Giacomo Casanova

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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. – Edmund Burke

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Politics is a highly tribal business. – Nick Clegg

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