All James Joyce Quotes
- What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then his mother put her face down. That… Cheek
- Terence O'Ryan heard him and straightway brought him a crystal cup full of the foaming ebon ale which the noble twin brothers Bungiveagh and Bungardilaun… Ale
- When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight. Born
- A nation is the same people living in the same place. Funny
- Full many a flower is born to blush unseen. Blush
- Masturbation! The amazing availability of it! Amazing
- Very gratefully, with grateful appreciation, with sincere appreciative gratitude, in appreciatively grateful sincerity of regret, he declined. Appreciation
- White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak. Beefsteak
- ...rapid motion through space elates one. Elates
- Does nobody understand? Doe
- By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of the mind itself.… Believed
- Ulysses He ... saw the dark tangled curls of his bush floating, floating hair of the stream around the limp father of thousands, a languid… Bush
- I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many… Arranged
- 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. Age
- Some people believe that we go on living in another body after death, that we lived before. They call it reincarnation. That we all lived… Ago
- The studious silence of the library ... Tranquil brightness. Brightness
- He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth.… Drivel
- Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered… Artistic
- When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic and intellectual conditions that prevail… Afar
- For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all… All
- Though people may read more into Ulysses than I ever intended, who is to say that they are wrong: do any of us know what… Any
- There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present. Eternal
- 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. Funny
- There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock, and start writing… Atmosphere
- The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue... Alone