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

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat? – Joseph Conrad

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Fear
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They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience. – Joseph Conrad

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Loyalty
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The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death. – Joseph Conrad

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A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men. – Patrick Kavanagh

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Truth is what works. – William James

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Without the way, there is no going without the truth, there is no knowing without the life, there is no living. – Thomas a Kempis

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. – Harry S. Truman

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Truth

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Precious beyond price are good resolutions. Valuable beyond price are good feelings. – H. R. Haweis

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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. – Oscar Wilde

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