The bearer of this letter is an old friend of mine not quite the right side of the blanket as they say in fact he is the son of a first rate butcher but his mother was a decent family called Hyssopps of the Glen so you see he is not so bad and is desireus of being the correct article.

-Ashford, Daisy Mary Margaret
  TheYoung Visiters, or Mr Salteena's Plan, ch.5.

He is not a genuine foreign-grown savage; he is the ordinary home-made article.Dirty, ugly, disagreeableto all the senses, in body a common creature of the common streets, only in soul a Heathen. Homely filth begrimes him, homely parasites devour him, homely sores are in him, homely rags are on him: native ignorance, the growth of English soil and climate, sinks his immortal nature lower than the beasts that perish.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^3  Of  Jo. Bleak House, ch.47.

The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants.

-Honegger, Arthur
I Am a Composer.

Whatever his private behavior, the man and his work existed in different realms. Mencken's defects were commonplace; his virtues were not. So wonderfully uninhibited was his style that even a single sentence in a routine article proclaimed its begetter.

-Meyer, Karl Ernest
  Of H L Mencken. In the NewYork Times Book Review, 8 May.

Far from being half a woman, a widow is the only complete example of her sex.Infact, thefinished article.

-Russell,John
  All the Dogs of My Life, pt.2, dog 9,'Coco'.

Alcohol is a very necessaryarticle† It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Undershaft to Barbara Undershaft. Major Barbara, act 2.

Though one eye may be very agreeable, yet as the prejudice has always run in favour of two, I would not wish to affect a singularity in that article.

-Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
  Jack Absolute.The Rivals, act 3, sc.1.

For a slashing article, sir, there's nobody like the Capting.

-Thackeray,William Makepeace
^50  Mr Bungay. Pendennis, ch.32.