James Joyce Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by James Joyce
James Joyce Famous Quotes & Sayings
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When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.
A light wind passed his brow, fanning softly his fair uncombed hair and stirring silver points of anxiety in his eyes.
Well, you know or don't you kennet or haven't I told you every
telling has a taling and that's the he and the she of it.
telling has a taling and that's the he and the she of it.
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
Death, a cause of terror to the sinner, is a blessed moment for him who has walked in the right path.
Damn it, I can understand a fellow being hard up but what I can't understand is a fellow sponging. Couldn't he have some spark of manhood about him?
We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. ~ Professor MacHugh
He had to undress and then kneel and say his own prayers before the gas was lowered so that he might not go to hell when he died.
- I'm a believer in universal brotherhood, said Temple, glancing about him out of his dark oval eyes. Marx is only a bloody cod.
Ireland sober is Ireland stiff. Lord help you, Maria, full of grease, the load is with me! Your prayers. I sonht zo! Madammangut!
One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.
Early morning: set off at dawn. Travel round in front of the sun, steal a day's march on him. Keep it up for ever never grow a day older technically.
For all their faults. I am passing out. O bitter ending! I'll slip away before they're up. They'll never see. Nor know. Nor miss me.
We who live under heaven, we of the clovery kindgom, we middlesins people have often watched the sky overreaching the land.
Slow eyes and parted lips gave her the appearance of a woman who did not know where she was or where she was going.
And with that he took the bloody old towser by the scruff of the neck and by Jesus he near throttled him.
I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.
Skipped off the gunrest and looked gravely at his watcher, gathering about his legs the loose folds of his
A headland, a ship, a sail upon the billows. Farewell. A lovely girl, her veil awave upon the wind upon the headland, wind around her.
Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.
Hell is the centre of evils and, as you know, things are more intense at their centres than at their remotest points.
Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women.
What? Corpus. Body. Corpse. Good idea the Latin. Stupifies them first. Hospice for the dying. They don't seem to chew it; only swallow it down.
My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out.
Very gratefully, with grateful appreciation, with sincere appreciative gratitude, in appreciatively grateful sincerity of regret, he declined.
Even if we are often led to desire through the sense of beauty can you say that the beautiful is what we desire?
Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall.
They used to drive a stake of wood through his heart in the grave. As if it wasn't broken already. Yet sometimes they repent too late.
Ulysses
Ulysses
There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.
He faced about and blessed gravely thrice the tower, the surrounding land and the awaking mountains.
Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pahrce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish.
There is an art in lighting a fire. We have the liberal arts and we have the useful arts. This is one of the useful arts.