29 quotes found
“Let my country die for me.”
“The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue...”
“He laughed to free his mind from his minds bondage.”
“Unseen, one summer eve, you kissed me in four places.”
“The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.”
“Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.”
“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
“What dreams would he have, not seeing. Life a dream for him. Where is the justice being born that way?”
“... I've a thirst on me I wouldn't sell for half a crown.- Give it a name, citizen, says Joe.- Wine of the country, says he.- What's yours? says Joe.- Ditto MacAnaspey, says I.- Three pints, Terry,...”
“Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read, seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot. Snotgre...”
“It grieved him plaguily, he said, to see the nuptial couch defrauded of its dearest pledges: and to reflect upon so many agreeable females with rich jointures, a prey for the vilest bonzes, who hid...”
“Wombed in sin darkness I was too, made not begotten. By them, the man with my voice and my eyes and a ghost-woman with ashes on her breath. They clasped and sundered, did the coupler's will.”
“Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.”
“To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.”
“Only big words for ordinary things on account of the sound.”
“So beautiful of course compared with what a man looks like with his two bags full and his other thing hanging down out of him or sticking up at you like a hatrack no wonder they hide it with a cabb...”
“I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.”
“And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.”
“Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.”
“Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Mo...”
“You find my words dark. Darkness is in our souls, do you not think?”
“Justice it means but it's everybody eating everyone else. That's what life is after all.”
“Her antiquity in preceding and surviving succeeding tellurian generations: her nocturnal predominance: her satellitic dependence: her luminary reflection: her constancy under all her phases, rising...”
