James Melville may refer to:
- James Melville (1556-1614), Scottish divine and reformer
- James Melville of Halhill (1535–1617), Scottish diplomat and memoir writer
- James Melville (politician) (1885–1931), British Labour Party Member of Parliament for Gateshead 1929–1931
- James Melville (author), pseudonym of British author Roy Peter Martin (b. 1931)
- James Melville (singer) (born 1992), British singer/songwriter
- James Cosmo Melvill (1845-1929), British malacologist
Famous quotes containing the words james and/or melville:
“Mankind’s common instinct for reality ... has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life’s supreme mystery is hidden. We tolerate no one who has no capacity whatever for it in any direction. On the other hand, no matter what a man’s frailties otherwise may be, if he be willing to risk death, and still more if he suffer it heroically, in the service he has chosen, the fact consecrates him forever.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“An indiscriminate distrust of human nature is the worst consequence of a miserable condition, whether brought about by innocence or guilt. And though want of suspicion more than want of sense, sometimes leads a man into harm; yet too much suspicion is as bad as too little sense.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)