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.

Quote by James Joyce

Topics: Friendship Quotes

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say...

What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say...

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous...

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous...

And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he...

And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he...

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole...

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole...

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that...

Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that...

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in...

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in...

Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.

Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.

When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.

When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out...

The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out...

Resignation is the timid sign of courage

Resignation is the timid sign of courage

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.

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

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

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than...

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than...

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as...

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as...

Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

Nations have their ego, just like individuals.

Nations have their ego, just like individuals.