Ulysses

Famous quotes

• Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

  Part I, Episode 1In context

• The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.

  Part I, Episode 1In context

  • Nature

• It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked lookingglass of a servant.

  Part I, Episode 1In context

  • Art

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

  Ch. 2: NestorIn context

  • History

• Stephen jerked his thumb towards the window, saying:
  —That is God.
  Hooray! Ay! Whrrwhee!
  —What? Mr Deasy asked.
  —A shout in the street, Stephen answered, shrugging his shoulders.

  Part I, Episode 2In context

  • God

• Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods’ roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.

  Part II, Episode 4In context

  • Food

• Come forth, Lazarus! And he came fifth and lost the job.

  Part II, Episode 6In context

  • Comedy

• Unsheathe your dagger definitions. Horseness is the whatness of allhorse. Streams of tendency and eons they worship.

  Part II, Episode 9In context

  • Philosophy

• The mocker is never taken seriously when he is most serious.

  Part II, Episode 9In context

  • Humor

• A father, Stephen said, battling against hopelessness, is a necessary evil.

  Part II, Episode 9In context

  • Family

• Paternity may be a legal fiction. Who is the father of any son that any son should love him or he any son?

  Part II, Episode 9In context

  • Family

• Shakespeare is the happy huntingground of all minds that have lost their balance.

  Part II, Episode 10In context

  • Clever Jabs

• But it’s no use, says he. Force, hatred, history, all that. That’s not life for men and women, insult and hatred. And everybody knows that it’s the very opposite of that that is really life.
  —What? says Alf.
  —Love, says Bloom. I mean the opposite of hatred.

  Part II, Episode 12 (3 of 3)In context

  • History
  • Love

• Love loves to love love.

  Part II, Episode 12 (3 of 3)In context

  • Love

• Your God was a jew. Christ was a jew like me.

  Part II, Episode 12 (3 of 3)In context

  • Christianity
  • Religion

• It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

  Part II, Episode 14 (3 of 3)In context

  • Life & Death

• People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.

  Part III, Episode 16 (3 of 3)In context

  • Anger

• The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.

  Part III, Episode 17 (2 of 3)In context

  • Nature

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