807 Quotes by James Joyce

Ena milo melomon, frai is frau and swee is too, swee is two when swoo is free, ana mala woe is we!

The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.

Then, in that case, all the rest, all that I thought I thought and all that I felt I felt, all the rest before me now, in fact... O, give it up old chap! Sleep it off!

It is dangerous to abandon one's own country,but it is more dangerous still to return to it, for then your fellow country-men, if they can, will drive a knife into your heart.

He was listening with pain of spirit to the overtone of weariness behind their frail fresh innocent voices. Even before they set out on life's journey they seemed weary already.

My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.

There was a lust of wandering in his feet that burned to set out for the ends of the earth. On! On! his heart seemed to cry. Evening would deepen above the sea, night fall upon the plains, dawn glimmer before the wanderer and show him strange fields and hills and faces. Where?

The glow of a late autumn sunset covered the grass plots and walks. It cast a shower of kindly golden dust on the untidy nurses and decrepit old men who drowsed on the benches; it flickered upon all the moving figures - on the children who ran screaming along the gravel paths and on everyone who passed through the gardens.

Do you know what Ireland is?' asked Stephen with cold violence. 'Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.