James Joyce Quotes

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

James Joyce

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

James Joyce

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

James Joyce

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce

A nation is the same people living in the same place.

James Joyce

Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.

James Joyce

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

James Joyce

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

James Joyce

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

James Joyce