Joseph Conrad Quotes About Enemies

Quotes about: Enemies

• You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

  Joseph Conrad

  Friendship, Men, Judging

  Lord Jim (1900) ch. 34

• Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.

  Joseph Conrad

  Hands, Promise, Enemy

  Joseph Conrad (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Conrad (Illustrated)”, p.5375, Delphi Classics

• Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

  Joseph Conrad

  Enemy, Literature, Action

  Nostromo (1904) pt. 1, ch. 6

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