James Joyce quotes

A nation is the same people living in the same place.

Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

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.

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.

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.