Joseph Conrad Quotes

For you know that it's a fool who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder.

If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you cry.

I don't really like being emotional. Public displays of emotion, I don't really do that sort of stuff. I don't know why. I would like to be the type that doesn't worry about that.

I'm not a big crier.

These people are amazing. It's so emotional I was thinking about wearing waterproof mascara.

The Mexican succumbs very easily to sentimental effusions, and therefore he shuns them.

I don't always show my emotion. You don't always get to see it.

When I'm away from the field, I show a little more emotion and stuff.

Diego Costa doesn't show any emotion. I am more emotional. So I have learned to control my emotions.

I don't cry unless it's personal.

I'm not really a crying type.

Certainly, different people show their emotions in different ways. Unfortunately for me, mine has never been very gracious and I don't know that it ever will be.

Sometimes you just gotta cry, but you never,ever do it in public.

He shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter, than he who does not deny his tears.

His cheek twitched. With Jeremy, this was the equivalent of an emotional outburst.

Dumbledore had not raised his voice, he did not even sound angry, but Harry would have preferred him to yell; this cold disappointment was worse than anything.

It is such a terrifying thing to see a man cry.

I'm a girl who has been tamping down her emotions and keeping them tightly guarded her whole life. And that works really well for me. [...] And now I felt like my shell had a dangerous crack in it. Without much more effort on his part, it would split wide open and my enormous river of emotions would gush out - the bad and the good. It was pretty much the scariest thing I'd ever thought of.

What's the good of being stoical if nobody notices?

I'm a Western-cultured man who subscribes to the ancient saw that men do not cry, I don't cry either. I'll go to a movie, for example, and not infrequently something triggers the urge to weep, but I don't allow myself.

Do not to let your feelings (very natural and usual ones) of momentary irritation and discomfort be seen by others don't (as you so often did and do) let every little feeling be read in your face and seen in your manner . . .

Believe me, nothing is so calculated to lose you audience sympathy as too many tears. Move your listeners all you can but let them do the crying.

There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion.

Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience. Intellect is to emotion as our clothes are to our bodies; we could not very well have civilized life without clothes, but we would be in a poor way if we had only clothes without bodies.

I can't cry on demand. I need to feel what I'm feeling. I can't just say, 'Give me a moment' and then cry.