Quote

When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.

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
Shall
Talk
Religion
Language
Nets
Born
Flung
Back
Nationality
Trying
Flight
Men
Hold

More quotes by James Joyce

Image
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
James Joyce
Image
The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue.
James Joyce
Image
In the particular is contained the universal.
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
Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub.
James Joyce
Image
The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed.
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
Redheaded women buck like goats.
James Joyce
Image
It seems to me you do not care what banality a man expresses so long as he expresses it in Irish.
James Joyce
Image
He passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy the rixdix doldy.
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
Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
James Joyce
Image
Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
James Joyce
Image
Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.
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
The apprehensive faculty must be scrutinised in action.
James Joyce
Image
When I die Dublin will be written on my heart.
James Joyce
Image
Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall.
James Joyce
Image
He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life
James Joyce
Image
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
James Joyce