incident quotes

Body-line was not an incident, it was not an accident, it was not a temporary aberration. It was the violence and ferocity of our age expressing itself in cricket.

- C(yril) L(ionel) R(obert) James
  Beyond the Boundary.

What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?

- Henry James
  'The  Art of Fiction', collected in Partial Portraits (1888).