807 Quotes by James Joyce

An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to comic art is the feeling of joy.

The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius.

Each lost soul will be a hell unto itself, the boundless fire raging in its very vitals.

When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.

Children must be educated by love, not punishment.

What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.

Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub.

The mocker is never taken seriously when he is most serious.

Signatures of all things I am here to read.