Ulysses (novel) Quotes

“DEAR DIRTY DUBLIN”

“O Jamesy let me up out of this.”

“Absence makes the heart grow younger.”

“Love loves to love love.”

“The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.”

“He kills his mother but he can't wear grey trousers.”

“Our national epic has yet to be written.”

“Kingstown pier, Stephen said. Yes, a disappointed bridge.”

“Come forth Lazarus! And he came fifth and lost the job.”

“The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.”

“A father, said Stephen, battling against hopelessness, is a necessary evil.”

“The mocker is never taken seriously when he is most serious.”

“I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.”

“Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.”

“Monsieur de la Palisse, Stephen sneered, was alive fifteen minutes before his death.”

“It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked lookingglass of a servant.”

“It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.”

“— You don't want anything for breakfast?
A sleepy soft grunt answered:
— Mn.”

“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”

“If you and I could only work together we might do something for the island. Helenise it.”