Ireland James Joyce Quotes

#1. When a man truly commits, the universe will conspire to assure his success.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. I'm not a partisan.

Douglas Brinkley

#3. My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.

James Joyce

#4. Ireland sober is Ireland stiff. Lord help you, Maria, full of grease, the load is with me! Your prayers. I sonht zo! Madammangut!

James Joyce

#5. Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.

James Joyce

#6. Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

James Joyce

#7. If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.

James Joyce

#8. Oh Ireland my first and only love
Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove!

James Joyce

#9. Stephen picks up on Armstrong's pier, and calls Kingstown pier "a disappointed bridge" (2.22). He's joking about the fact that Ireland wanted to be connected to continental Europe but ended up being extremely isolated.

James Joyce

#10. People who were raised on The Bible can never tell the difference between a warning and an advertisement.

George Hammond

#11. James Joyce once called Guinness stout "the wine of Ireland." Indeed it's one of the most successful beers worldwide. Ten million glasses of this ambrosial liquid are consumed with great gusto each day.

Rashers Tierney

#12. Be just before you are generous.

James Joyce

#13. The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.

James Joyce

#14. Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

James Joyce

#15. Women at the top are the ones chosen to be there by men and not eliminated by women, a dual filter that excludes most witches: those with brilliance and originality and those capable of disturbing the status quo.

Heather Marsh

#16. Feet pue tan!" she shouted.
Ty cleared his throat, looking at Zane wryly. "She just called me a goddamned son of a bitch."
"I like her," Zane responded.

Abigail Roux

#17. Evidently an A level in English is a sacred trust, like something out of "The Lord of the Rings". You must go forth with your A level and protect the English language with your bow of elfin gold.

Lynne Truss

#18. Save the trees of Ireland for the future men of Ireland on the fair hills of Eire, O.

James Joyce

#19. I seriously believe that you will retard the course of civilisation in Ireland by preventing the Irish people from having one good look at themselves in my nicely polished looking glass.

James Joyce

#20. I got a bit bored of just me and my guitar,

Elena Tonra