John Betjeman

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.

People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.

Silver and ermine and red faces full of port wine.

If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

Some people say Hawaii is spoiled, but I don't think so. It's modern. It's a part of today's world.