All James Joyce Quotes
- If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European. Become European
- It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant. Art
- The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you. All
- But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires. Beautiful
- The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed. Better
- The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea. Inspirational
- And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life,… All
- Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned. Both
- When the short days of winter came, dusk fell before we had well eaten our dinners. When we met in the street the houses had… Air
- Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the… Conscience
- [A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life. Body
- I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women. Anywhere
- I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe,… Allow
- I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy. Big
- God made food; the devil the cooks. Cooks
- Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name? Cold
- Then Nuvoletta reflected for the last time in her little long life and she made up all her myriads of drifting minds in one. She… All
- Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices… All
- While you have a thing it can be taken from you…..but when you give it, you have given it. no robber can take it from… Forever
- History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. Awake
- and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood. All
- Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body. Body
- But we are living in a skeptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age; and sometimes I fear that this new generation,… Age
- All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light... All
- Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was… Along