James Grant Duff (1789–1858) was a British Soldier, and historian from Scotland who was active in British India.
Read more about James Grant Duff: Early Life, Military Career, Return To Scotland, Family, Works, Literature
Famous quotes containing the words james, grant and/or duff:
“Essential truth, the truth of the intellectualists, the truth with no one thinking it, is like the coat that fits tho no one has ever tried it on, like the music that no ear has listened to. It is less real, not more real, than the verified article; and to attribute a superior degree of glory to it seems little more than a piece of perverse abstraction-worship.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that.... Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)
“‘But why is your face so yellowy white,”
—Henry Duff Traill (1842–1900)