Joseph Conrad Quotes

One foole makes a hundred.

And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.

Fools are not mad folks.

If others had not been foolish, we should be so.

There is no fool to the old fool.

Don't suffer fools or you'll become one.

There's no exception to the rule, yes, everybody's somebody's fool.

There had never been a shortage of fools in the world

It is better to be a fool than to be dead.

It is bad enough to see young fools, but worse to see old fools.

--nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others

You may be an idiot but I don't think you're a fool.

He that sends a foole expects one.

A fool's bolt is soon shot.

You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad.

A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.

It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.

If there is any truth to the old proverb that "one who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client," the Court now bestows a constitutional right on one to make a fool of himself.

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

If fooles should not foole it, they shall lose their season.

You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.

A rogue is a roundabout fool.

It is the property of fools to be always judging.

The older a fool is, the worse he is.

... it's always determined characters who make the greatest fools.