James Joyce Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.

  James Joyce

  Father

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ch. 5 (1916)

• I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

  James Joyce

  Birthday, Mother, Children

  James Joyce (1976). “Selected letters of James Joyce”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

• And Jesus was a Jew too. Your god. He was a Jew like me. And so was his father.

  James Joyce

  Jesus, Father, Atheism

• Ulysses is son to Laertes, but he is father to Telemachus, husband to Penelope, lover of Calypso, companion in arms of the Greek warriors around Troy, and King of Ithaca. He was subjected to many trials, but with wisdom and courage came through them all.... he is a complete man as well, a good man.

  James Joyce

  Kings, Husband, Father

• Ulysses He ... saw the dark tangled curls of his bush floating, floating hair of the stream around the limp father of thousands, a languid flatong flower.

  James Joyce

  Father, Flower, Dark

• I don't mean to presume to dictate to you in the slightest degree but why did you leave your father's house?
  MTo seek misfortune, was Stephen's answer.

  James Joyce

  Father, Mean, Home

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