J. C. Squire Quotes

1884–1958 England

Sir John Collings Squire (2 April 1884 – 20 December 1958) was a British poet, writer, historian, and influential literary editor of the post-World War I period.

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The better production of our generation has been mainly lyrical and it has been widely diffused.

And I've swallowed, I grant, a beer of lot -
But I'm not so think as you drunk I am.

Ballade of Soporific Absorption (1931)

At last incapable of further harm,
The lewd forefathers of the village sleep.

It did not last: the devil, shouting "Ho.
Let Einstein be," restored the status quo.

It did not last: the Devil howling 'Ho!
Let Einstein be!' restored the status quo.

In continuation of Pope on Newton (1926)

God heard the embattled nations sing and shout
"Gott strafe England" and "God save the King!"
God this, God that, and God the other thing –
"Good God!" said God, "I've got my work cut out!"

Now there once was a lass, and a very pretty lass,
And she was an isotope's daughter

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: J. C. Squire (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.