Country Squire

Famous quotes containing the words country and/or squire:

“Public before private and country before family.”
—Chinese proverb.

“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)