All James Joyce Quotes
- The State is concentric, but the individual is eccentric. Concentric
- White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all! All
- There's many a true word spoken in jest. Inspirational
- And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other… All
- No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered… Afar
- I came in at half past eleven. Since then I have been sitting in an easy chair like a fool. I could do nothing. I… Aside
- In the particular is contained the universal. Contained
- He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life Beautiful
- Sentimentality is unearned emotion. Emotion
- All human history moves towards one great goal All
- Save the trees of Ireland for the future men of Ireland on the fair hills of Eire, O. Fair
- The only decent people I ever saw at the racecourse were horses. Decent
- A certain pride, a certain awe, withheld him from offering to God even one prayer at night, though he knew it was in God's power… Awe
- The light music of whiskey falling into a glass - an agreeable interlude. Agreeable
- Absence, the highest form of presence. Absence
- 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. Citadel
- I see the regions of snow and ice, I see the sharp-eyed Samoiede and the Finn, I see the seal-seeker in his boat poising his… Atlantic
- Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eons of the gods. Access
- He passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy the… Bonham
- All fiction is autobiographical fantasy. All
- One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar… Every Human
- To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life. Err
- People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus. Cactus
- O cold ! O shivery ! It was your ambrosial beauty. Forget, forgive. Kismet. Let me off this once. Ambrosial
- The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an adventurer above all,… Adventurer