James Joyce Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by James Joyce
James Joyce Famous Quotes & Sayings
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![James Joyce quotes: When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight. James Joyce quotes: When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/james-joyce-quotes-1340786.jpg)
![James Joyce quotes: A light wind passed his brow, fanning softly his fair uncombed hair and stirring silver points of anxiety in his eyes. James Joyce quotes: A light wind passed his brow, fanning softly his fair uncombed hair and stirring silver points of anxiety in his eyes.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/james-joyce-quotes-986913.jpg)
![James Joyce quotes: Well, you know or don't you kennet or haven't I told you everytelling has a taling and that's the he and the she of it. James Joyce quotes: Well, you know or don't you kennet or haven't I told you everytelling has a taling and that's the he and the she of it.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/james-joyce-quotes-779996.jpg)
telling has a taling and that's the he and the she of it.
![James Joyce quotes: 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. James Joyce quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/james-joyce-quotes-2066238.jpg)
![James Joyce quotes: Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead. James Joyce quotes: Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/james-joyce-quotes-2193220.jpg)
![James Joyce quotes: Death, a cause of terror to the sinner, is a blessed moment for him who has walked in the right path. James Joyce quotes: Death, a cause of terror to the sinner, is a blessed moment for him who has walked in the right path.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/james-joyce-quotes-479616.jpg)
![James Joyce quotes: 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? James Joyce quotes: 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?](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/james-joyce-quotes-1231755.jpg)
![James Joyce quotes: We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. ~ Professor MacHugh James Joyce quotes: We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. ~ Professor MacHugh](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/james-joyce-quotes-1380093.jpg)
![James Joyce quotes: 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. James Joyce quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/james-joyce-quotes-1359485.jpg)
![James Joyce quotes: - I'm a believer in universal brotherhood, said Temple, glancing about him out of his dark oval eyes. Marx is only a bloody cod. James Joyce quotes: - I'm a believer in universal brotherhood, said Temple, glancing about him out of his dark oval eyes. Marx is only a bloody cod.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/james-joyce-quotes-1238648.jpg)
![James Joyce quotes: Ireland sober is Ireland stiff. Lord help you, Maria, full of grease, the load is with me! Your prayers. I sonht zo! Madammangut! James Joyce quotes: Ireland sober is Ireland stiff. Lord help you, Maria, full of grease, the load is with me! Your prayers. I sonht zo! Madammangut!](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/james-joyce-quotes-1852302.jpg)
![James Joyce quotes: One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature. James Joyce quotes: One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/james-joyce-quotes-2064761.jpg)
![James Joyce quotes: 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. James Joyce quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/james-joyce-quotes-2064721.jpg)
![James Joyce quotes: 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. James Joyce quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/james-joyce-quotes-1882686.jpg)
![James Joyce quotes: We who live under heaven, we of the clovery kindgom, we middlesins people have often watched the sky overreaching the land. James Joyce quotes: We who live under heaven, we of the clovery kindgom, we middlesins people have often watched the sky overreaching the land.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/james-joyce-quotes-1822188.jpg)
![James Joyce quotes: Slow eyes and parted lips gave her the appearance of a woman who did not know where she was or where she was going. James Joyce quotes: Slow eyes and parted lips gave her the appearance of a woman who did not know where she was or where she was going.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/james-joyce-quotes-1671166.jpg)
![James Joyce quotes: And with that he took the bloody old towser by the scruff of the neck and by Jesus he near throttled him. James Joyce quotes: And with that he took the bloody old towser by the scruff of the neck and by Jesus he near throttled him.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/james-joyce-quotes-1497864.jpg)
![James Joyce quotes: 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. James Joyce quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/james-joyce-quotes-1440371.jpg)
![James Joyce quotes: Skipped off the gunrest and looked gravely at his watcher, gathering about his legs the loose folds of his James Joyce quotes: Skipped off the gunrest and looked gravely at his watcher, gathering about his legs the loose folds of his](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/james-joyce-quotes-276308.jpg)
![James Joyce quotes: 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. James Joyce quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/james-joyce-quotes-573896.jpg)
![James Joyce quotes: 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. James Joyce quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/james-joyce-quotes-434328.jpg)
![James Joyce quotes: Hell is the centre of evils and, as you know, things are more intense at their centres than at their remotest points. James Joyce quotes: Hell is the centre of evils and, as you know, things are more intense at their centres than at their remotest points.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/james-joyce-quotes-365012.jpg)
![James Joyce quotes: Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name? James Joyce quotes: Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/james-joyce-quotes-309499.jpg)
![James Joyce quotes: I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women. James Joyce quotes: I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/james-joyce-quotes-228781.jpg)
![James Joyce quotes: 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. James Joyce quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/james-joyce-quotes-181079.jpg)
![James Joyce quotes: 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. James Joyce quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/james-joyce-quotes-176310.jpg)
![James Joyce quotes: Very gratefully, with grateful appreciation, with sincere appreciative gratitude, in appreciatively grateful sincerity of regret, he declined. James Joyce quotes: Very gratefully, with grateful appreciation, with sincere appreciative gratitude, in appreciatively grateful sincerity of regret, he declined.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/james-joyce-quotes-961711.jpg)
![James Joyce quotes: Even if we are often led to desire through the sense of beauty can you say that the beautiful is what we desire? James Joyce quotes: Even if we are often led to desire through the sense of beauty can you say that the beautiful is what we desire?](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/james-joyce-quotes-17423.jpg)
![James Joyce quotes: 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. James Joyce quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/james-joyce-quotes-1042737.jpg)
![James Joyce quotes: 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 James Joyce quotes: 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](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/james-joyce-quotes-1038260.jpg)
Ulysses
![James Joyce quotes: There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin. James Joyce quotes: There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/james-joyce-quotes-985143.jpg)
![James Joyce quotes: He faced about and blessed gravely thrice the tower, the surrounding land and the awaking mountains. James Joyce quotes: He faced about and blessed gravely thrice the tower, the surrounding land and the awaking mountains.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/james-joyce-quotes-967076.jpg)
![James Joyce quotes: 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. James Joyce quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/james-joyce-quotes-931094.jpg)
![James Joyce quotes: 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. James Joyce quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/james-joyce-quotes-919959.jpg)