Famous quotes containing the words collings squire, sir john, john, collings and/or squire:
“Columbus’s doom-burdened caravels
Slant to the shore, and all their seamen land.”
—Sir John Collings Squire (1884–1958)
“Down came the hairy talons
and horrible poison blade
And none of the garden noticed
that fizzing, hopeless fight.”
—Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)
“Whither goest thou?”
—Bible: New Testament Peter, in John, 13:36.
The words, which are repeated in John 16:5, are best known in the Latin form in which they appear in the Vulgate: Quo vadis? Jesus replies, “Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards.”
“Columbus’s doom-burdened caravels
Slant to the shore, and all their seamen land.”
—Sir John Collings Squire (1884–1958)
“There now are no Squire Westerns as of old;
And our Sophias are not so emphatic,
But fair as then, or fairer to behold.
We have no accomplish’d blackguards, like Tom Jones,
But gentlemen in stays, as stiff as stones.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)