Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions. James Joyce More Quotes by James Joyce More Quotes From James Joyce His eyes were dimmed with tears and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost. James Joyce tears eye heaven Let my country die for me. James Joyce dies country When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water. James Joyce mother tea water Deal with him, Hemingway! James Joyce deals heart What? Corpus. Body. Corpse. Good idea the Latin. Stupifies them first. Hospice for the dying. They don't seem to chew it; only swallow it down. James Joyce dying latin ideas I'll tickle his catastrophe. James Joyce catastrophe Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. James Joyce time water hands I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires. James Joyce wire confused running ...rapid motion through space elates one. James Joyce rapids space running Ulysses He ... saw the dark tangled curls of his bush floating, floating hair of the stream around the limp father of thousands, a languid flatong flower. James Joyce flower dark father Every bond is a bond to sorrow. James Joyce sorrow The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness. James Joyce library brightness silence He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this? James Joyce jesus-christ atheism water 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. James Joyce small-numbers husband office (...) The new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor, Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Specch, Plural Voting, Gastronomy, Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Painless Obstetrics and Astronomy for the People. James Joyce hygiene voting people He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a verb in the past tense. James Joyce distance reflection life Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life. James Joyce lease wind giving As you are now so once were we. James Joyce [...] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend. James Joyce brightness shining darkness I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world. James Joyce arms desire world