Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?

The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.

Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.

I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness.

Ulysses ... is a dogged attempt to cover the universe with mud, an inverted Victorianism, an attempt to make crossness and dirt succeed where sweetness and light failed, a simplification of the human character in the interests of Hell.

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?