He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.

Wipe your glosses with what you know.

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.

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

One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.