Quotes About Ulysses

Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love

It is important to understand how leaders have adapted and thought about war and warfare across their careers. 'The Autobiography of General Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs of the Civil War' is perhaps the best war memoir ever written.

I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.

The third man,' he answered, 'is Ulysses who dwells in Ithaca. I can see him in an island sorrowing bitterly in the house of the nymph Calypso, who is keeping him prisoner, and he cannot reach his home for he has no ships nor sailors to take him over the sea.

It [Joyce's "Ulysses"] plays on the reader's sympathies to his own undoing unless sleep kindly intervenes and puts a stop to this drain of energy. Arrived at page 135, after making several heroic efforts to get at the book, to "do it justice", as the phrase goes, I fell at last into profound slumber.

With unrelaxed nerves, with morning vigor, sail by it, looking another way, tied to the mast like Ulysses.

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

The Irishman shambles up to him and asks if there's any casual job going. "You don't look to me," says the supervisor, "as if you know the difference between a girder and a joist." "I do, too," says the Irishman indignantly. "The first of them wrote Faust and the second one wrote Ulysses.

The enemy had been much demoralized by his defeats at Champion's Hill and the Big Black, and I believed he would not make much effort to hold Vicksburg.

Forrest indeed performed the very remarkable feat of capturing, with cavalry, two gunboats and a number of transports, something the accomplishment of which is very hard to account for.

For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation. It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies, in not considering justice in

I knew the enemy were ready to break and only wanted a little encouragement from us to go quickly and join their friends who had started earlier.

If you want to know what are the events which cast their shadow over the hell of time of King Lear, Othello, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, look to see when and how the shadow lifts. What softens the heart of a man, shipwrecked in storms dire, Tried, like another Ulysses, Pericles, prince of Tyre?

Ulysses was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

I recall a most ingenious piece in a Wisconsin quarterly some years ago in which 'The Recognitions' ' debt to 'Ulysses' was established in such minute detail I was doubtful of my own firm recollection of never having read 'Ulysses.

To take so much punctuation in one hit initially sounds audacious, but perhaps the thief thought no one would notice as most readers never get that far into Ulysses—you will recall the theft of chapter sixty-two from Moby-Dick, where no one noticed?

'Ulysses' is the greatest anti-racist text in the English language, and it challenges right from the beginning the vicious racism which lies near the foundations of the Irish Free State and of the Irish republic.

Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.

This is the most beautiful thing we'll ever have to publish. Let us print it if it's the last effort of our lives! -on publishing Ulysses

He pilfered a copy of Ulysses, but it was possibly the one book he did not finish. 'What's the point of it? I suspect it was a bit of a joke by Joyce. He just kept his mouth shut as people read into it more then there was. Pseudo-intellectuals love to drop the name Ulysses as their favorite book. I refused to be intellectually bullied into finishing it.

Miss MacIntosh, My Darling stands out in my mind as the most significant innovative novel since Ulysses and The Waves . Marguerite Young has added epic grandeur to the philosophical novel. Every page gleams with the poetry of existence.