The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in vulgarity of speech or of
gesture or in a memorable phase of the mind itself. He believed that it was for the man of letters
to recover these epiphanies with extreme care, seeing that they themselves are the most delicate
and evanescent of moments.
‘Stephen Hero’ (1944) ch. 25 (part of a first draft of ‘A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’)
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a
mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind
him on the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned:—Introibo ad altare Dei.
‘Ulysses’ (1922) p. 1 (ch. 1, l. 1 in H. W. Gabler et al. ed., 1986)
The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.
‘Ulysses’ (1922) p. 5 (ch. 1, l. 78 in H. W. Gabler et al. ed., 1986)
It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked lookingglass of a servant.
‘Ulysses’ (1922) p. 7 (pt. 1, ch. 1, l. 146 in H. W. Gabler et al. ed., 1986)
When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes
water...Begob, ma’am, says Mrs Cahill, God send you don’t make them in the one pot.
‘Ulysses’ (1922) p. 12 (ch. 1, l. 357 in H. W. Gabler et al. ed., 1986)
I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.
‘Ulysses’ (1922) p. 31 (ch. 2, l. 264 in H. W. Gabler et al. ed., 1986)
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
‘Ulysses’ (1922) p. 34 (ch. 2, l. 377 in H. W. Gabler et al. ed., 1986)
Lawn Tennyson, gentleman poet.
‘Ulysses’ (1922) p. 50 (ch. 3, l. 492 in H. W. Gabler et al. ed., 1986)
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.
‘Ulysses’ (1922) p. 53 (ch. 4, l. 1 in H. W. Gabler et al. ed., 1986)
Come forth, Lazarus! And he came fifth and lost the job.
‘Ulysses’ (1922) p. 102 (ch. 6, l. 678 in H. W. Gabler et al. ed., 1986)
Plenty to see and hear and feel yet. Feel live warm beings near you. They aren’t going to get
me this innings. Warm beds: warm full blooded life.
‘Ulysses’ (1922) p. 107 (ch. 6, l. 1003 in H. W. Gabler et al. ed., 1986)
She used to say Ben Dollard had a base barreltone voice.
‘Ulysses’ (1922) p. 147 (ch. 8, l. 117 in H. W. Gabler et al. ed., 1986)
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
‘Ulysses’ (1922) p. 182 (ch. 9, l. 228 in H. W. Gabler et al. ed., 1986)
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.
‘Ulysses’ (1922) p. 317 (ch. 12, l. 1481 in H. W. Gabler et al. ed., 1986)
Greater love than this, he said, no man hath that a man lay down his wife for his friend. Go