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!
There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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.
No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove.
The intellectual imagination! With me all or not at all. NON SERVIAM!
He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life.
Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
All human history moves towards one great goal.
Save the trees of Ireland for the future men of Ireland on the fair hills of Eire, O.
The only decent people I ever saw at the racecourse were horses.
A certain pride, a certain awe, withheld him from offering to God even one prayer at night, though he knew it was in God’s power to take away his life while he slept and hurl his soul hellward ere he could beg for mercy.