807 Quotes by James Joyce

What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?

I should tell you that honestly, on my honour of a Nearwicked, I always think in a wordworth's of that primed favourite continental poet, Daunty, Gouty and Shopkeeper, A.G., whom the generality admoyers in this that is and that this is to come.

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.

Tenors get women by the score.

We are an unfortunate priest-ridden race and always were and always will be tell the end of the chapter.... A priest-ridden Godforsaken race.

His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.

The Irish are people who will never have leaders, for at the great moment they always desert them. They have produced one skeleton--Parnell--never a man.

Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.

What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began?