Quote

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

James Joyce

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

James Joyce
Age: 58 †
Born: 1882
Born: February 2
Died: 1941
Died: January 13
Author
Father
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Poet
Prosaist
Teacher
Writer
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce
Curves
Intellect
Emotion
Lines
Women
Men
Governed

More quotes by James Joyce

Image
A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
James Joyce
Image
In the particular is contained the universal.
James Joyce
Image
Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.
James Joyce
Image
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
James Joyce
Image
People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
James Joyce
Image
[...] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.
James Joyce
Image
Wipe your glosses with what you know.
James Joyce
Image
O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
James Joyce
Image
Absence, the highest form of presence.
James Joyce
Image
My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.
James Joyce
Image
[Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity.
James Joyce
Image
Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions.
James Joyce
Image
There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.
James Joyce
Image
The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
James Joyce
Image
Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state.
James Joyce
Image
Our souls, shamewounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more. She trusts me, her hand gentle, the longlashed eyes. Now where the blue hell am I bringing her beyond the veil? Into the ineluctable modality of the ineluctable visuality. She, she, she. What she?
James Joyce
Image
She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed: and though she knew the small number of his talents she appreciated his abstract value as a male.
James Joyce
Image
Human society is the embodiment of changeless laws which the whimsicalities and circumstances of men and women involve and overwrap. The realm of literature is the realm of these accidental manners and humours--a spacious realm and the true literary artist concerns himself mainly with them.
James Joyce
Image
Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
James Joyce
Image
You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
James Joyce