Biography Quote by Mike Jay

“As a pauper, the obvious destination for James Tilly Matthews was the Bethlem Hospital, already long known in popular slang as Bedlam. The principal…

— Mike Jay

“The Bedlam that greeted James Tilly Matthews, then, was not so much a baroque spectacle of depravity as an exhausted and run-down public institution,…

— Mike Jay

“James and the other eight children of 'Superior Dosset,' of whom there are still five alive, may be said to have represented Victorian England,…

— John Galsworthy

“He patted her hand. “But I will settle for an amiable wife.” It was as close to making a declaration of his intentions as…

— Sabrina Jeffries

“We would do well to remember that the great pragmatist William James dedicated his extraordinarily wide-ranging Varieties of Religious Experience to none other than…

— Bart Schultz

“He seemed to be doing his best to marry into a family of pronounced loonies, and how the deuce he thought he was going…

— P.G. Wodehouse

Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had…

— Samuel Johnson

“In many ways Churchill remained a nineteenth-century man, and by no means a common man. He fit the mold of what Henry James called…

— William Manchester

“The Constables and the Bow Street men from London — for, this happened in the days of the extinct red-waistcoated police — were about…

— Charles Dickens

“Mr. Bingley was good-looking and gentlemanlike; he had a pleasant countenance, and easy, unaffected manners. His sisters were fine women, with an air of…

— Jane Austen

“Dost thou verily think that the Earl of Birmingham is low enough to plead for his life?' Sir Robert returned angrily, the wrathful blood…

— Alicia A. Willis

“He’s nice, easy on the eyes. Plus, he’s British, which means he’s got manners and knows how to dance like Mr. Darcy, right?”

— Tabitha Freeman