Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
JAMES JOYCEHis soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
More James Joyce Quotes
-
-
The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
JAMES JOYCE -
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
JAMES JOYCE -
Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
JAMES JOYCE -
A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
JAMES JOYCE -
I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
JAMES JOYCE -
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
JAMES JOYCE -
I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
JAMES JOYCE -
God made food; the devil the cooks.
JAMES JOYCE -
Let my country die for me.
JAMES JOYCE -
Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
JAMES JOYCE -
Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.
JAMES JOYCE -
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
JAMES JOYCE -
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 uncreated conscience of my race.
JAMES JOYCE -
I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.
JAMES JOYCE -
The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
JAMES JOYCE