I think perhaps the greatest book ever written was Ulysses by James Joyce. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Constant Penelope sends to thee, careless Ulysses. Write not again, but come, sweet mate — Ovid Copy Share Image
James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] ... an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan? — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Though people may read more into Ulysses than I ever intended, who is to say that they are wrong: do any of… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“A picture is worth a thousand words, but the way I paint I'm going to need to contact an editor. Even if… — James Lee Schmidt Copy Share Image
Take this squirrel, for instance. Ulysses. Do I believe he can type poetry? Sure, I do believe it. There is much more… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
... A La Recherche du Temps Perdu is like a beautiful hand with long fingers reaching out to pluck a perfect fruit,… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“But my considered opinion, after long reflection, is that, whilst in many places the effect of "Ulysses" on the reader undoubtedly is… — John Munro Woolsey Copy Share Image
“An array of colorful camps dotted the river banks, like a Garrison of army on a peace keeping mission. A mini India;… — APORVAKALA Copy Share Image
I'm not sure which I dislike more: 'Ulysses' or the James Joyce estate. Admittedly, a few people have got some pleasure from… — Kevin Myers Copy Share Image
“In [Bloom's] having managed to sustain his curiosity about the people and the world around him after thirty-eight years of familiarity and… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I've been working hard on [Ulysses] all day," said Joyce. Does that mean that you have written a great deal?" I said.… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“It is generally understood that a modern-day book may honorably be based upon an older one, especially since, as Dr. Johnson observed,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Loyalty, Signor Molteni, not love. Penelope is loyal to Ulysses but we do not know how far she loved him...and as you… — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
“Mr. Beaumaris, who had picked Ulysses up, paid no heed to all these attempts at self-justification, but addressed himself to his adorer.… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
“The book [Joyce's "Ulysses"] can just as well be read backwards, for it has no back and no front, no top and… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
“My great adventure is really Proust. Well-- what remains to be written after that? I’m only in the first volume, and there… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There's no easy way to say this, so I'll just say it: We're no longer No. 1. Today, we're No. 2. Yes,… — Stephen F. Hayes Copy Share Image
“One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nausicaa-- blessing it rather than in love with it.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“They used to drive a stake of wood through his heart in the grave. As if it wasn’t broken already. Yet sometimes… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Ulysses was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Beauty: it curves, curves are beauty. Shapely goddesses, Venus, Juno: curves the world admires.” — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I used to carry a copy of Ulysses with me everywhere just in case I was knocked down by a bus. It… — Craig Raine Copy Share Image
The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us. — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“When Ulysses saw his brother, a wonderful thing happened to his face. All the terror left his eyes, because now he was… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“Why was the host (victim predestined) sad? He wished that a tale of a deed should be told of a deed not… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
![“[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.” quote by Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/564/virginia-woolf-49_funny_ulysses-is-the-work-of-a-queasy-undergra_1863865.jpg)
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![“In [Bloom's] having managed to sustain his curiosity about the people and the world around him after thirty-eight years of familiarity and routine that ought to have dulled and dampened it; and above all in the abiding capacity for empathy, for moral imagination, that is the fruit of an observant…” quote by Michael Chabon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68c/michael-chabon-627_book-of-life_in-bloom-s-having-managed-to-sustain-his_2528393.jpg)
![“I've been working hard on [Ulysses] all day," said Joyce. Does that mean that you have written a great deal?" I said. Two sentences," said Joyce. I looked sideways but Joyce was not smiling. I thought of [French novelist Gustave] Flaubert. "You've been seeking the mot juste?" I said. No," said…” quote by James Joyce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/275/james-joyce-281_deals_i-ve-been-working-hard-on-ulysses-all-da_1018148.jpg)
![“The book [Joyce's "Ulysses"] can just as well be read backwards, for it has no back and no front, no top and no bottom. Everything could easily have happened before, or might have happened afterwards. You can read any of the conversations just as pleasurably backwards, for you don't miss the point…” quote by C.G. Jung](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b3/c-g-jung-2163_books_the-book-joyce-s-ulysses-can-just-as-wel_2541350.jpg)
