John Betjeman

Quotes by John Betjeman

 

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

John Betjeman

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

John Betjeman

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Silver and ermine and red faces full of port wine.

John Betjeman

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

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