People Trample Over Flowers, Yet Only To Embrace A Cactus.

Quote by James Joyce

Topics: Love Quotes

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

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

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...

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...

'History,' Stephen said, 'is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake

'History,' Stephen said, 'is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

Nations have their ego, just like individuals.

Nations have their ego, just like individuals.

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought...

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought...

A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

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...

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or...

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or...

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a...

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a...

Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and...

Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and...

I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and...

I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and...

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...

By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make...

By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make...

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use...

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use...

Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered...

Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered...