James Joyce - Best Quotes

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.

Fear

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.

James Joyce

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.

Best

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

James Joyce

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Art

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

James Joyce

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Age

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

James Joyce

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

Age

Better pass boldly into that other world in the full glory of some passion than fade and wither dismally with age.

James Joyce

Better pass boldly into that other world in the full glory of some passion than fade and wither dismally with age.

Hot Quotes

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Author: James Joyce

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.

Satan really is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.

Poetry even when apparently most fantastic is always a revolt against artifice a revolt in a sense against actuality.

Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

I am tomorrow or some future day what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

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.

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

Better pass boldly into that other world in the full glory of some passion than fade and wither dismally with age.