807 Quotes by James Joyce

But Noodynaady’s actual ingrate tootle is of come into the garner mauve and thy nice are stores of morning and buy me a bunch of iodines.

Now patience; and remember patience is the great thing, and above all things else we must avoid anything like being or becoming out of patience.

We are once amore as babes awondering in a wold made fresh where with the hen in the storyaboot we start from scratch.

It was hard work-a hard life-but now that she was about to leave it she did not find it a wholly undesirable life.

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.

There’s many a true word spoken in jest.

One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. He thought of how she who lay beside him had locked in her heart for so many years that image of her lover’s eyes when he had told her that he did not wish to live.

Haun! Work your progress! Hold to! Now! Win out, ye divil ye!

In one letter that he had written to her then he had said: Why is it that words like these seem to me so dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?