and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
— Dubliners
James Joyce was an Irish novelist, poet and literary critic who contributed to the modernist movement and is regarded among the most influential writers of the 20th century. His novel Ulysses is a landmark in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, particularly stream of consciousness.
His other well-known works include the short-story collection Dubliners and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Finnegans Wake. Born in Dublin into a middle-class family, he attended the Jesuit Clongowes Wood College and excelled at Belvedere College despite his father's unpredictable finances. He graduated from University College Dublin in 1902. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses are his most quoted works in our library.
His other well-known works include the short-story collection Dubliners and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Finnegans Wake. Born in Dublin into a middle-class family, he attended the Jesuit Clongowes Wood College and excelled at Belvedere College despite his father's unpredictable finances. He graduated from University College Dublin in 1902. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses are his most quoted works in our library.
Most quoted works
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 29
- Ulysses 26
- Dubliners 8
- Finnegans Wake 7
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
— Ulysses
God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear.
— A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
He is cured by faith who is sick of fate.
— Finnegans Wake
By thinking of things you could understand them.
— A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
What dreams would he have, not seeing. Life a dream for him. Where is the justice being born that way?
— Ulysses
She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed: and though she knew the small number of his talents she appreciated his abstract value as a male.
— Dubliners
The eyes, too, were reptilelike in glint and gaze. Yet at that instant, humbled and alert in their look, they were lit by one tiny human point, the window of a shriveled soul, poignant and selfembittered.
— A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.
— A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.
— A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and willful as a bird's heart?
— A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man