Famous quotes containing the words james vi and/or james:
“A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.”
—James I of England, James VI of Scotland (1566–1625)
“She had an unequalled gift ... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)