Quote

The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue.

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
Pint
Pints
Tongue
Drinking
Sacred
Alone

More quotes by James Joyce

Image
If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.
James Joyce
Image
I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
James Joyce
Image
Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies.
James Joyce
Image
He could not feel her near him in the darkness nor hear her voice touch his ear. He waited for some minutes listening. He could hear nothing: the night was perfectly silent. He listened again: perfectly silent. He felt that he was alone.
James Joyce
Image
Tenors get women by the score.
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
Deal with him, Hemingway!
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
Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
James Joyce
Image
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.
James Joyce
Image
Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.
James Joyce
Image
In woman's womb word is made flesh but in the spirit of the maker all flesh that passes becomes the word that shall not pass away. This is the postcreation.
James Joyce
Image
One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.
James Joyce
Image
You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought.
James Joyce
Image
Absence, the highest form of presence.
James Joyce
Image
His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.
James Joyce
Image
I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
James Joyce
Image
Beauty, the splendour of truth, is a gracious presence when the imagination contemplates intensely the truth of its own being or the visible world, and the spirit which proceeds out of truth and beauty is the holy spirit of joy. These are realities and these alone give and sustain life.
James Joyce
Image
White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
James Joyce
Image
I don't mean to presume to dictate to you in the slightest degree but why did you leave your father's house? MTo seek misfortune, was Stephen's answer.
James Joyce