The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (243 page)

Joseph, Chief
c.
1840–1904

1
From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever.

speech at the end of the Nez Percé war in 1877

 
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Joseph, Jenny
1932–

1
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we've got no money for butter.

"Warning" (1974)

 
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Jowett, Benjamin
1817–93

1
The lie in the soul is a true lie.

introduction to his translation (1871) of Plato's
Republic
bk. 2

 
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Joyce, James
1882–1941

1
Dear, dirty Dublin.

Dubliners
(1914) "A Little Cloud"

2
riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodious vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.

Finnegans Wake
(1939) pt. 1

3
All moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday till the fear of the Law.

Finnegans Wake
(1939) pt. 2

4
Three quarks for Muster Mark!

Finnegans Wake
(1939) pt. 2

5
A portrait of the artist as a young man.

title of book (1916)

6
Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(1916); opening words

7
Poor Parnell! he cried loudly. My dead king!

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(1916) ch. 1

8
Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

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

9
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

Ulysses
(1922); opening words

10
The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.

Ulysses
(1922)

11
It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked lookingglass of a servant.

Ulysses
(1922)

12
I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.

Ulysses
(1922)

13
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

Ulysses
(1922)

14
The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.

Ulysses
(1922)

15
O, father forsaken,
Forgive your son!

"Ecce Puer"

 
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Joyce, William
(
Lord Haw-Haw
) 1906–46

1
Germany calling! Germany calling!

habitual introduction to propaganda broadcasts to Britain during the Second World War

 
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Juan Carlos I
1938–

1
I will neither abdicate the Crown nor leave Spain. Whoever rebels will provoke a new civil war and will be responsible.
on the occasion of the attempted coup in 1981

television broadcast at 1.15 a.m., 24 February 1981

 
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