Occupation: Novelist Birth: February 2, 1882 Death: January 13, 1941
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home..
I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women..
Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time..
Always see a fellows weak point in his wife..
My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen..
Children must be educated by love, not punishment..
I am a worker, a tombstone mason, anxious to pleace averyburies and jully glad when Christmas comes his once ayear..
If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple..
To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life..
I don't want to die. Damn death. Long live life..
Stephen jerked his thumb towards the window, saying: — That is God. Hooray! Ay! Whrrwhee! — What? Mr Deasy asked. — A shout in the street, Stephen an….
A man's errors are his portals of discovery..
In this life our sorrows are either not very long or not very great because nature either overcomes them by habits or puts an end to them by sinking ….
What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours..
Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned..
I came in at half past eleven. Since then I have been sitting in an easy chair like a fool. I could do nothing. I hear nothing but your voice. I am l….
In woman's womb word is made flesh but in the spirit of the maker all flesh that passes becomes the word that shall not pass away. This is the postcr….
Let us leave theories there and return to here's hear..
What birds were they? (...) He listened to the cries: like the squeak of mice be- hind the wainscot : a shrill twofold note. But the notes were long ….
Oh Ireland my first and only love Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove!.