• Categories
Location |   Home >> Quotes SMS >> Author Wise Quotes >> James Joyce Quotes
  • James Joyce Quotes   323
  • I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning.
    • 4 years ago



    Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Life Quotes , Art Quotes
  • Under cover of her silence he pressed her arm closely to his side; and, as they stood at the hotel door, he felt that they had escaped from their lives and duties, escaped from home and friends and run away together with wild and radiant hearts to a new adventure.
    • 4 years ago



    Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Running Quotes , Home Quotes
  • 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.
    • 4 years ago



    Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Men Quotes , Artist Quotes
  • The romantic temper, so often and so grievously misinterpreted and not more by others than by its own, is an insecure, unsatisfied, and impatient temper which sees no fit abode here for its ideals and chooses therefore to behold them under insensible figures. As a result of this choice it comes to disregard certain limitations. Its figures are blown to wild adventures, lacking the gravity of solid bodies, and the mind that has conceived them ends by disowning them.
    • 4 years ago



    Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Adventure Quotes , Insecure Quotes