Excess baggage Quotes by James Joyce

He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.

— James Joyce

“Ah, poor dogsbody! Here lies poor dogsbody's body.”

— James Joyce

Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many…

— James Joyce

Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english.

— James Joyce

“Do you know what Ireland is?' asked Stephen with cold violence. 'Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.”

— James Joyce

The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness.

— James Joyce

“two cronies drank to the memory of their past. An abyss of fortune or of temperament sundered him from them. His mind seemed older…

— James Joyce

He passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy…

— James Joyce

“-Qui vous a mis dans cette fichue position?”

— James Joyce

I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame.

— James Joyce

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.

— James Joyce

In woman's womb word is made flesh but in the spirit of the maker all flesh that passes becomes the word that shall not…

— James Joyce