James Joyce Quotes

“A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.”

“All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.”

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

“Life is too short to read a bad book.”

“My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.”

“Redheaded women buck like goats.”

“Shut your eyes and see.”

“The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.”

“Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.”

“Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.”