There's no police like Holmes..

Tenors get women by the score..

For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the pa….

All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light..

Deal with him, Hemingway!.

Alone, what did Bloom feel? The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below freezing point or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade ….

Evening had fallen. A rim of the young moon cleft the pale waste of sky line, the rim of a silver hoop embedded in grey sand: and the tide was flowin….

[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life..

Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low..

But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires..

But we are living in a sceptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hy….

What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then his mother put her face down. That was to kiss. His mother put ….

A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike, leaving his mind s….

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself the soul being unable to ….

Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas..

Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?.

When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight..

Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the….

She would follow, her dream of love, the dictates of her heart that told her he was her all in all, the only man in all the world for her for love wa….

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow..

The Irish are people who will never have leaders, for at the great moment they always desert them. They have produced one skeleton--Parnell--never a ….