Quote

When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water.

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
Tea
Water
Makes
Mother

More quotes by James Joyce

Image
What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?
James Joyce
Image
You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought.
James Joyce
Image
You cannot eat your cake and have it.
James Joyce
Image
Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.
James Joyce
Image
An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to comic art is the feeling of joy.
James Joyce
Image
When I heard the word ''stream'' uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the contemporary novel. And besides, it isn't new, it is far from the dernier cri. Shakespeare used it continually, much too much in my opinion, and there's Tristam Shandy, not to mention the Agamemnon.
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
Very gratefully, with grateful appreciation, with sincere appreciative gratitude, in appreciatively grateful sincerity of regret, he declined.
James Joyce
Image
I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.
James Joyce
Image
What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?
James Joyce
Image
When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.
James Joyce
Image
He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds.
James Joyce
Image
Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.
James Joyce
Image
Broken heart. A pump after all, pumping thousands of gallons of blood every day. One fine day it gets bunged up and there you are... Old rusty pumps: damn the thing else. The resurrection and the life. Once you are dead you are dead.
James Joyce
Image
I'll tickle his catastrophe.
James Joyce
Image
There's many a true word spoken in jest.
James Joyce
Image
The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.
James Joyce
Image
Thought is the thought of thought.
James Joyce
Image
Stephen jerked his thumb towards the window, saying: — That is God. Hooray! Ay! Whrrwhee! — What? Mr Deasy asked. — A shout in the street, Stephen answered, shrugging his shoulders.
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