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James Payn
5 quotes
“May he perish, inch by inch, within reach of the aid that shall never come, ere the God of the poor take him into his hand.”
James Payn (1830–1898) first seen 1864 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (1864), vol. 1, ch. 6; vol. 2, ch. 18
“To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too far and ridding us of his presence altogether.”
James Payn (1830–1898) first seen 1880 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Pinch of Poverty", in The Nineteenth Century (May 1880), p. 866
“You are safe to-day, my friend, but you will not be safe to-morrow; you may be safe to-morrow, but you will not be safe the next day: in my country vengeance is a dish that we eat cold.”
James Payn (1830–1898) first seen 1883 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Thicker than Water (1883), vol. 1, ch. 17, p. 320
“I had never had a piece of toast Particularly long and wide, But fell upon the sanded floor, And always on the buttered side.”
James Payn (1830–1898) first seen 1884 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Muse of Parody", in Chambers's Journal (2 February 1884), p. 71
“He was no coward, but it had suddenly struck him that the present was a very ill-chosen time for a row with his younger relative, however successful might be the issue. Such violence should not go unpunished, but vengeance is a dish that can be eaten cold.”
James Payn (1830–1898) first seen 1892 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Modern Dick Whittington (1892), vol. 1, p. 222