James Joyce quotes - page 7

Seraphim, The lost hosts awaken. (James Joyce)
Boor, bond of thy herd, Tonight stretch full by the fire! View quote
James Joyce
Thaw! The last word in stolentelling! (424.35) View quote
James Joyce
She dealt with moral problems the way a cleaver deals with meat: and in this case she had made up her mind. View quote
James Joyce
The pity is the public will demand and find a moral in my book - or worse they may take it in some more serious way, and on the honor of a gentleman, there is not one single serious line in it. View quote
James Joyce
Your lean jaws grin with. Lash Your itch and quailing, nude greed of the flesh. View quote
James Joyce
How soft, how sad his voice is ever calling, Ever unanswered, and the dark rain falling. View quote
James Joyce
To say that a great genius is half-mad, while recognizing his artistic prowess, is worth as much as saying that he was rheumatic, or that he suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical expression to which a balanced critic should pay no more heed than he would to the accusation of heresy brought by the theologian, or to the accusation of immorality brought by the public prosecutor. View quote
James Joyce
A nation is the same people living in the same place. View quote
James Joyce
Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow. View quote
James Joyce
Ireland sober is Ireland stiff. (James Joyce)
Nations have their ego, just like individuals. View quote
James Joyce
I laugh at it today, now that I have had all the good of it. Let the bridge blow up, provided I have got my troops across... Nonetheless, that book was a terrible risk. A transparent leaf separates it from madness. View quote
James Joyce
Can you nei do her, numb? asks Dolph, suspecting the answer know. Oikkont, ken you, ninny? asks Kev, expecting the answer guess. (286.25-27) View quote
James Joyce
We expect you are, honest Shaun, we agreed, but from franking machines, limricked, that in the end it may well turn out, we hear to be you, our belated, who will bear these open letter. Speak to us of Emailia. (410.20-23) View quote
James Joyce
In the name of the former and of the latter and of their holocaust. Allmen. (419.9-10) View quote
James Joyce
No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse. View quote
James Joyce
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 pass away. This is the postcreation. View quote
James Joyce
I'll tickle his catastrophe. View quote
James Joyce
I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play. View quote
James Joyce
He tried to weigh his soul to see if it was a poet's soul. (James Joyce)
A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place, Is the Pen Mightier than the Sword? View quote
James Joyce
Every night as I gazed up at the window I said to myself softly the word paralysis. View quote
James Joyce
It soared, a bird, it held its flight, a swift pure cry, soar silver orb it leaped serene. View quote
James Joyce
Imagine my glimpses at that clock as the gropings of a spiritual eye which seeks to adjust its vision to an exact focus. The moment the focus is reached the object is epiphanised. View quote
James Joyce