Ulysses

Heureux, qui comme Ulysse, a fait un beau voyage, Ou comme cestuy la'   qui conquit la toison, Et puis est retourne¤  , plein d'usage et raison, Vivre entre ses parents le reste de son a"  ge! Happy is he who, like Ulysses, has taken a wondrous journey Or has won the Golden Fleece, And then returns home wise and useful To live in his homeland the rest of his days.

—Bellay,Joachim du

I envy you if you're able to sustain a uniform degree of interest throughout Ulysses.People are always saying they do. People also claim to be clairvoyant and to levitate.

—Bowles, Paul Frederick

There are passages of Ulysses which can be read only in the toiletöif one wants to extract the full flavour of their content.

—Miller, Henry Valentine

Ulysses†is a dogged attempt to cover the universe with mud, an inverted Victorianism, an attempt to make crossness and dirt succeed where sweetness and light failed, a simplification of the human character in the interests of Hell.

—Forster, E(dward) M(organ)