Quotes By James Joyce

Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.

When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.

He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

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

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

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

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.

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

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

Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

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

And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.

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.

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

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

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

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

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

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

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

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

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

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

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

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

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.