J. C. Squire Quotes

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About J. C. Squire

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.

Born: April 2nd, 1884

Died: December 20th, 1958

Categories: English poets, Historians, Anthologists, Satirists, Journalists, Editors, 1950s deaths

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It did not last: the devil, shouting "Ho. Let Einstein be," restored the status quo.
J. C. Squire
• "In continuation of Pope on Newton" from Poems (1926); Squire is here extending upon the famous statement of Alexander Pope:
   Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said, Let Newton be! — and all was light.

  • As quoted in The Epigrammatists : A Selection from the Epigrammatic Literature of Ancient, Mediæval, and Modern Times (1875) by Henry Philip Dodd, p. 329.
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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!"
The better production of our generation has been mainly lyrical and it has been widely diffused.
At last incapable of further harm, The lewd forefathers of the village sleep.
J. C. Squire
If Gray had had to write his Elegy in the Cemetery of Spoon River instead of in that of Stoke Poges.
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Now there once was a lass, and a very pretty lass, And she was an isotope's daughter
And I've swallowed, I grant, a beer of lot - But '''I'm not so think as you drunk I am.''

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