Quotes By James Joyce

If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.

Nations have their ego, just like individuals.

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

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

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

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

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