Exile Quote by James Joyce Download Open image “An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.” — James Joyce ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Exile Humor Irishmen Needs Silence Three Three things
History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with it? — William Allingham Copy Share Image
“You may have noticed there are three things an Irishman always puts his soul in: his religion, his sports, and his politics. If you… — Mary Deasy Copy Share Image
“He said you have to be on the side of the losers, the people with bad lungs. You have to be with those who… — Hugo Hamilton Copy Share Image
“There are only three kinds of Irishmen who can't understand women. Young men, old men and men of middle age.” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“In becoming an Irishman, Patrick wedded his world to theirs, his faith to their life…Patrick found a way of swimming down to the depths… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
The Irish are people who will never have leaders, for at the great moment they always desert them. They have produced one skeleton--Parnell--never a… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I am concerned that there's a cavalier attitude to the Irish Peace Process. What poor memories some have; I remember only too well the… — Dervla Kirwan Copy Share Image
It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations? — Dorothy Salisbury Davis Copy Share Image
Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away. — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Do you know what Ireland is?' asked Stephen with cold violence. 'Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.” — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“two cronies drank to the memory of their past. An abyss of fortune or of temperament sundered him from them. His mind seemed older… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
He passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
In woman's womb word is made flesh but in the spirit of the maker all flesh that passes becomes the word that shall not… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Were you indeed not blinded by the Curse Of Self-exile, that still grows worse and worse, Yourselves would know that, though you see him… — Farid al-Din Attar Copy Share Image
What can my enemies do to me? My paradise is in my heart, it is with me wherever I go. To imprison me is… — Ibn Taymiyyah Copy Share Image
To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I had severed relations with the Romanian exiles who had become politically conservative and even extremely right wing; I was giving chess lessons to… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In our culture of constant access and nonstop media, nothing feels more like a curse from God than time in the wilderness. To be… — Jonathan Martin Copy Share Image
I turned what was a wonderful case of self-reliance into a case of self-exile. Which is not uncommon, I think, in people who grow… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
Humor is widely used by Indians to deal with life. Indian gatherings are marked by laughter and jokes, many directed at the horrors of… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
The Gnostics believed that exile was the essential condition of man. Do you agree? I do. The artist and the addict both wrestle with… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at the bidding… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
