Ulysses and Dubliners Quotes

“I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses and Dubliners

“Therefore, everyman, look to that last end that is thy death and the dust that gripeth on every man that is born of woman for as he came naked forth from his mother's womb so naked shall he wend him at the last for to go as he came.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses and Dubliners

“lad stood to attention anyhow, he said with a sigh. She's a gamey mare and no mistake. Bloom was pointing out all the stars and the comets in the heavens to Chris Callinan and the jarvey: the great bear and Hercules and the dragon, and the whole jingbang lot. But, by God, I was lost, so to speak, in the milky way. He knows them all, faith. At last she spotted a weeny weeshy one miles away. And what star is that, Poldy? says she. By God, she had Bloom cornered. That one, is it? says Chris Callinan, sure that's only what you might call a pinprick.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses and Dubliners

“Peter Piper pecked a peck of pick of peck of pickled pepper.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses and Dubliners

“One of those chaps would make short work of a fellow. Pick the bones clean no matter who it was. Ordinary meat for them. A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk. I read in that Voyages in China that the Chinese say a white man smells like a corpse. Cremation better. Priests dead against it. Devilling for the other firm. Wholesale burners and Dutch oven dealers. Time of the plague. Quicklime feverpits to eat them. Lethal chamber. Ashes to ashes. Or bury at sea. Where is that Parsee tower of silence? Eaten by birds. Earth, fire, water. Drowning they say is the pleasantest. See your whole life in a flash. But being brought back to life no. Can't bury in the air however. Out of a flying machine. Wonder”
― James Joyce, Ulysses and Dubliners

“passed Grogan's the Tobacconist against which newsboards leaned and told of a dreadful catastrophe in New York. In America those things were continually happening. Unfortunate people to die like that, unprepared. Still, an act of perfect contrition.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses and Dubliners

“Couldn't they invent something automatic so that the wheel itself much handier? Well but that fellow would lose his job then? Well but then another fellow would get a job making the new invention?”
― James Joyce, Ulysses and Dubliners

“The cat walked stiffly round a leg of the table with tail on high. —Mkgnao! —O, there you are, Mr Bloom said, turning from the fire. The cat mewed in answer and stalked again stiffly round a leg of the table, mewing. Just how she stalks over my writingtable. Prr. Scratch my head. Prr.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses and Dubliners

“Reading two pages apiece of seven books every night, eh?”
― James Joyce, Ulysses and Dubliners

“—You're not a believer, are you? Haines asked. I mean, a believer in the narrow sense of the word. Creation from nothing and miracles and a personal God. —There's only one sense of the word, it seems to me, Stephen said.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses and Dubliners

“Stephen Dedalus, displeased and sleepy, leaned his arms on the top of the staircase and looked coldly at the shaking gurgling face that blessed him,”
― James Joyce, Ulysses and Dubliners

“He faced about and blessed gravely thrice the tower, the surrounding land and the awaking mountains.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses and Dubliners

“Woodshadows floated silently by through the morning peace from the stairhead seaward where he gazed. Inshore and farther out the mirror of water whitened, spurned by lightshod hurrying feet. White breast of the dim sea. The twining stresses, two by two. A hand plucking the harpstrings, merging their twining chords.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses and Dubliners

“Solemnly he came forward and mounted the round gunrest. He faced about and blessed gravely thrice the tower, the surrounding land and the awaking mountains.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses and Dubliners

“—The islanders, Mulligan said to Haines casually, speak frequently of the collector of prepuces.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses and Dubliners

“She bows her old head to a voice that”
― James Joyce, Ulysses and Dubliners

“Four shining sovereigns, Buck Mulligan cried with delight. We'll have a glorious drunk to astonish the druidy druids. Four omnipotent sovereigns.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses and Dubliners

“White breast of the dim sea. The twining stresses, two by two. A hand plucking the harpstrings, merging their twining chords. Wavewhite wedded words shimmering on the dim tide.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses and Dubliners

“...все люди в странном неведении касательно ценности тех слов, которыми они так небрежно пользуются”
― James Joyce, Дублинцы. Улисс.

“PADDY LEONARD: What am I to do about my rates and taxes? BLOOM: Pay them, my friend. PADDY LEONARD: Thank you.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses and Dubliners

“—Qui vous a mis dans cette fichue position? —c'est le pigeon, Joseph. Patrice, home on furlough, lapped warm milk with me in the bar MacMahon. Son of the wild goose, Kevin Egan of Paris. My father's a bird, he lapped the sweet lait chaud with pink young tongue, plump bunny's face. Lap, lapin. He hopes to win in the gros lots. About the nature of women he read in Michelet. But he must send me La Vie de Jesus by M. Leo Taxil. Lent it to his friend. —C'est tordant, vous savez. Moi, je suis socialiste. Je ne crois pas en l'existence de Dieu. Faut pas le dire a mon p-re. —Il croit? —Mon pere, oui.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses and Dubliners

“Liliata rutilantium te confessorum turma circumdet: iubilantium te virginum chorus excipiat.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses and Dubliners

“preacher's tone:”
― James Joyce, Ulysses and Dubliners