Words matter. These are the best James Joyce Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.
A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what’s cheese? Corpse of milk.
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear.
I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.
A nation is the same people living in the same place.
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.
A nation is the same people living in the same place.
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.
Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.
Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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 only way of insuring one’s immortality.
God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear.
If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
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.
