Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from James Joyce

James Joyce Irish author (1882 - 1941)


James Joyce -
- Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins commited in previous lives.

James Joyce - "Finnegans Wake"
- I call that a scumhead.

James Joyce -
- Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce -
- History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

James Joyce -
- Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce -
- Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.

James Joyce -
- A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce -
- Mistakes are the portals of discovery.