Quotes by James Joyce

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.

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

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

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

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.

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

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

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