Quote

Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.

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
Horse
Englishman
Bull
Englishmen
Bulls
Horns
Beware
Heels
Smile

More quotes by James Joyce

Image
All human history moves towards one great goal
James Joyce
Image
Gentle lady, do not sing Sad songs about the end of love Lay aside sadness and sing How love that passes is enough. Sing about the long deep sleep Of lovers that are dead, and how In the grave all love shall sleep: Love is aweary now.
James Joyce
Image
I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.
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
Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pharce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish.
James Joyce
Image
A nation is the same people living in the same place.
James Joyce
Image
Deal with him, Hemingway!
James Joyce
Image
All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
James Joyce
Image
No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse.
James Joyce
Image
When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once.
James Joyce
Image
It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.
James Joyce
Image
And the first till last alshemist wrote over every square inch of the only foolscap available, his own body, till by its corrosive sublimation one continuous present tense integument slowly unfolded all marryvoising moodmoulded cyclewheeling history.
James Joyce
Image
Shut your eyes and see.
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
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
My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.
James Joyce
Image
What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and in reality not knowing their own minds.
James Joyce
Image
This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.
James Joyce
Image
I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses
James Joyce
Image
Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.
James Joyce