All James Joyce Quotes
- And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going… Ask
- I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the… Arguing
- Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why. Committed
- Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America. America
- Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home. Escaping
- Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. Actuality
- Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. Dunghill
- No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination. Inclination
- The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring… Art
- My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions. Ambition
- Nations have their ego, just like individuals. Ego
- Ireland sober is Ireland stiff. Inspirational
- My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire. Cold
- Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance. All
- A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk. Bad
- Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow. Eats
- Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment. Appearing
- The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works. Demand
- You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman. Forget
- He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible. Actual