Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by J. C. Squire

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British poet J. C. Squire.
Last updated on April 15, 2025.
J. C. Squire

Sir John Collings Squire was a British writer, most notable as editor of the London Mercury, a major literary magazine in the interwar period. He antagonised several eminent authors, but attracted a coterie that was dubbed the Squirearchy. He was also a poet and historian, who captained a famous literary cricket-team called the Invalids.

Columbus's doom-burdened caravels
Slant to the shore, and all their seamen land. — © J. C. Squire
Columbus's doom-burdened caravels Slant to the shore, and all their seamen land.
I am not so think as you drunk I am.
It did not last: the devil howling "Ho! Let Einstein be!" restored the status quo.
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