Quote by Joseph Conrad
As to honor - you know - its a very fine mediaeval inheritance whi

As to honor – you know – its a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasnt theirs. – Joseph Conrad

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Only in mens imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. – Joseph Conrad

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Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. – Joseph Conrad

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Sure God created man before woman. But then you always make a rough draft before the final masterpiece. – Author Unknown

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I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex. – Katharine Hepburn

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Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile. – Emma Bonino

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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences. – Andre Maurois

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Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like. – Arnold Bennett

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