14 Quotes By James Joyce


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

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.
James Joyce on age

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
James Joyce on art

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
James Joyce on best

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
James Joyce on fear

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.
James Joyce on friendship

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

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

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
James Joyce on men

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
James Joyce on poetry

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

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

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.
James Joyce on saint patricks day