Famous quotes containing the words james, gordon and/or bennett:
“We, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues we may also possess, still carry about with us, ready at any moment to burst into flame, the smoldering and sinister traits of character by means of which they lived through so many massacres, harming others, but themselves unharmed.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“He scratched his ear, the infallible resource
To which embarrassed people have recourse.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“You involved me in a public scandal. I protested. You said, “Do your worst” and that’s precisely what I did.”
—Charles Bennett (b.1899)