Dubliners Quotes

“my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.”

― James Joyce, Dubliners

topic:love

“Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.”

― James Joyce, Dubliners

topic:love friendship

“The fourth member of the party, however, was too excited to be genuinely happy.”

― James Joyce, Dubliners

topic:happiness

“there is no word tender enough to be your name”

― James Joyce, Dubliners

topic:words

“sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hypereducated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day.”

― James Joyce, Dubliners

topic:education humanity

“Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.”

― James Joyce, Dubliners

topic:passion age

“After a quarter of a century of married life, she had very few illusions left.”

― James Joyce, Dubliners

“I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.”

― James Joyce, Dubliners

topic:foolishness

“He gnawed the rectitude of his life; he felt that he had been outcast from life's feast.”

― James Joyce, Dubliners

“real adventures . . . do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.”

― James Joyce, Dubliners

topic:adventure travel home

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