807 Quotes by James Joyce

What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends?

As I am. As I am. All or not at all.

An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.

Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state.

Life is the great teacher.

Heart of my heart, were it more, More would be laid at your feet.

Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.

Michael Robartes remembers forgotten beauty and, when his arms wrap her round, he presses in his arms the loveliness which has long faded from the world. Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.