All Quotes
2989 quotes in total
“James Clarence Mangan”
“I want to achieve myself”
“All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light. And though I seem to have been driven out of my country here as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine. Letter to Augusta Gregory (November 1902), from James Joyce by Richard Ellmann (1959) [Oxford University Press, 1983 edition, ISBN 0”
“My heart, have you no wisdom thus to despair? My love, my love, my love, why have you left me alone? From the poem I Hear an Army”
“Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence. "A Suave Philosophy," in Daily Express, Dublin (6 February 1903), printed in James Joyce: Occasional, Critical and Political Writing (2002) edited by Kevin Barry [Oxford University Press, ISBN 0”
“Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an aesthetic end. Notebook entry, Paris (28 March 1903), printed in James Joyce: Occasional, Critical and Political Writing (2002) edited by Kevin Barry [Oxford University Press, 2002, ISBN 0”
“Ireland, Island of Saints and Sages,”
“Realism and Idealism in English Literature (Daniel Defoe”
“The Mirage of the Fisherman of Aran: England's Safety Valve in Case of War,”
“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 become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul. Notes (1913) made by Joyce for his play Exiles”
“We used to think our fate was in the stars. Now we know it is in our genes.”
“The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier.”
“Science is a collaborative effort, and no single discovery belongs to any one person.”
“DNA is the most beautiful molecule in the world.”
“If we don't play God, who will?”
“I never dreamed of being famous. I just wanted to be a scientist.”
“The double helix is a simple structure, but its implications are profound.”
“Avoid boring people.”
“Science proceeds not by proving things but by disproving them.”
“The greatest discovery in science is the discovery of ignorance.”
“Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals corrupted. Letter (August 1796) on arriving in London [ Letters of Jane Austen”
“What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance. Letter (1796”
“Next week I shall begin my operations on my hat, on which you know my principal hopes of happiness depend. Letter (1798”
“I am very much obliged to my dear little George for his message”
“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. Letter to Cassandra (1798”
“You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve. Letter to Cassandra (1798”
“I had a very pleasant evening, however, though you will probably find out that there was no particular reason for it; but I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it. Letter (1799”
“She would tell you herself that she has a very dreadful cold in her head at present; but I have not much compassion for colds in the head without fever or sore throat. Letter to Cassandra (1799”
“I am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown. Letter to Cassandra (1799”
“I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit. Letter to Cassandra (1799”