Dubliners Quotes

#1. In 'Open City,' there is a passage that any reader of Joyce will immediately recognise as a very close, formal analogue of one the stories in 'Dubliners.' That is because a novel is also a literary conversation.

Teju Cole

#2. I know some of my memories are made up and they are far more powerful than the things that actually happened. For example, I always remember my brother posting me a copy of 'Dubliners' from Africa, but he says he never did.

John Banville

#3. Then he spoke of James Joyce. He told about Joyce's family, his religion, his education, his writing. He spoke of a book called Dubliners and a story in the book titled "Ivy Day in the Committee Room." Regardless of race, regardless of class, that story was universal, he said.

Ernest J. Gaines

#4. The variety within Mann's fiction is impressive and fascinating. But Joyce is even more various and many-sided. He begins his career with a wonderful sequence of bleak studies about the ways in which human lives can go awry - in my view, Dubliners is underrated.

Philip Kitcher

#5. For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.

Evan Dando

#6. Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock.

Ronald Reagan

#7. One thing is clear to me: we, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

Barbara Jordan

#8. I could have danced all night!

Alan Jay Lerner

#9. And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man.

William Wordsworth

#10. Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families.

Hernan Cortes

#11. My family was very supportive of my acting. They didn't really have a choice because I got jobs acting before anyone could really say anything. It paid my way through college and helped my family out.

Ajay Naidu

#12. Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Henry Ford

#13. The taste of death is upon my lips. I feel something that is not of this earth.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#14. Well," said Stuart, "a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.

E.B. White

#15. I am from the bush. The bush did not define me. I did not stay in the bush, but I never forgot where I came from.

Anthony Carmona

#16. I agree that dreaming in not a crime, so I can dream as big as I can.

Israelmore Ayivor

#17. Either you like cats or you don't. Whole nations have been divided on what people thought of an animal that mates openly, walks in silence and keeps its own counsel.

John Hillaby

#18. But it'll kill him!"
"It could be worse," said Rincewind.
"What?"
"It could be us," Rincewind pointed out logically.

Terry Pratchett

#19. I remember saying to my agent, "Listen, everybody's going out to Hollywood and making movies. I think I ought to go out there." And his advice to me was, "I wouldn't do that if I were you. If they want you in Hollywood, they'll send you." And sure enough, they did.

Morgan Freeman

#20. Damn it, I can understand a fellow being hard up but what I can't understand is a fellow sponging. Couldn't he have some spark of manhood about him?

James Joyce