Epitaph for Sir John Simon:

This stone with not unpardonable pride,
Proves by its record what the world denied:
Simon could do a natural thing – he died.


As quoted in: The later years: 1945-1962 (Atheneum, 1966), Harold Nicolson, Nigel Nicolson, p. 256

John Sparrow Quotes

This stone with not unpardonable pride, Proves by its record what the world denied: Simon could do a natural thing – he died.

This stone with not unpardonable pride, Proves by its record what the world denied: Simon could do a natural thing – he died.

This stone with not unpardonable pride, Proves by its record what the world denied: Simon could do a natural thing – he died.

This stone with not unpardonable pride, Proves by its record what the world denied: Simon could do a natural thing – he died.