Nora Barnacle Quotes

#1. Nora Barnacle is not a very interesting person." So said Richard Ellmann, author of the definitive James Joyce biography, to Brenda Maddox, author of the only Nora Barnacle biography, who quoted him to me.

Jessa Crispin

#2. If God wanted us in the ocean, he wouldn't have made the land.

Lauren Child

#3. Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.

Abba Eban

#4. I don't know whether my husband is a genius or not, but he certainly has a dirty mind.

Nora Barnacle

#5. The children of God should know their time, goals and means of achieving them

Sunday Adelaja

#6. Church bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood, The land of spices; something understood.

George Herbert

#7. Why don't you write books people can read?(to her husband James)

Nora Barnacle

#8. Go get dirty, baby girl. And I mean the naked kind.

Kelly Moran

#9. The simplest melodies are the hardest to play

Gary Goldschneider

#10. Let your condiments be in the condition of your senses.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. Delwyn believed that some secrets were meant to stay in the shadows.

Kelly Proudfoot

#12. Perhaps that is the real surprise of love; it exists, but one may not attribute causes and effects to it. The existence may appear to be a mere fallacy to the minds of some, and by the time they realise what hit them, they would already be down and dead.

Faraaz Kazi

#13. What has Ingeld to do with Christ?

Alcuin

#14. A pale sun poked impudent marmalade fingers through the grizzled lattice glass, and sent the shadows scurrying, like convent girls menaced by a tramp.

Vivian Stanshall

#15. Love me litle, love me long. 1546

John Heywood