James Payn

English novelist and editor (1830–1898)

James Payn (28 February 1830 – 25 March 1898) was an English novelist and editor. Among the periodicals he edited were Chambers's Journal in Edinburgh and the Cornhill Magazine in London.

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  • 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.
  • 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.
    • "The Pinch of Poverty", in The Nineteenth Century (May 1880), p. 866
  • I had never had a piece of toast
      Particularly long and wide,
    But fell upon the sanded floor,
      And always on the buttered side.
    • "The Muse of Parody", in Chambers's Journal (2 February 1884), p. 71
    • Parodying Moore's famous lines from Lalla Rookh (1817):
      I never nursed a young gazelle
        To glad me with its soft dark eye,
      But when it came to know me well,
        And love me, it was sure to die—
  • 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.
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