You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.
Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo.
What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and in reality not knowing their own minds.
Oh Ireland my first and only love Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove!
This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.
He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds.
What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?
For the years, he felt, had not quenched his soul, or hers.
Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illuminated his memory.
You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought.
The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant’s heart on the hillside.
A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory.
I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description.
Nations have their ego, just like individuals.
Stephen jerked his thumb towards the window, saying: – That is God. Hooray! Ay! Whrrwhee! – What? Mr Deasy asked. – A shout in the street, Stephen answered, shrugging his shoulders.
The State is concentric, but the individual is eccentric.
White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!