Heart of Darkness Quotes- Chapter 1

Page 32- "from Sir Francais Drake to to Sir John Franklin, knights all, titled and untitled- the great knights-errant of the sea." 

Page 34- "Imagine the growing regrets, the longing to escape, the powerless digest, the surrender, the hate." 

"It was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale,"

Page 36- "It had become a place of darkness." 

"It fascinated me as a snake would a bird- a silly little bird." 

"The snake had charmed me." 

Page 37- "I should think the cause of progress got them, anyhow." 

Page 38- "I was going into the yellow...And the river was there - fascinating - deadly - like a snake."

"I thought of these two, guarding the door of Darkness...one introducing, introducing continuously to the unknown, the other scrutinizing...Not many of those she looked at ever saw her again." 

Page 40- "Something like an emissary of light".

"weaning those ignorant millions from their horrid ways". 

"It's queer how out of touch with truth women are." 

Page 41- "what looked like a God-forsaken wilderness". 

"some sordid farce acted in front of a sinister backcloth." 

"they had faces like grotesque masks". 

"an intense energy of movement, that was as natural and true as the surf along the coast." 

"firing into the continent." 

Page 42- "there was a camp of natives- he called them enemies!" 

"merry dance of death and trade". 

"as if Nature herself had tried…