James Joyce Quotes & Sayings

“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”

“Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.”

“I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.”

“I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.”

“Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.”

“A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”

“A nation is the same people living in the same place.”

“I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.”

“The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.”

“When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.”