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John Betjeman Quotes

«Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.»
Author: John Betjeman | About: Childhood | Keywords: sights, Sight and Sound, smells
«I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.»
Author: John Betjeman | About: Thinking
«Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.»
«Silver and ermine and red faces full of port wine.»
«Miss J. Hunter Dunn, Miss J. Hunter Dunn,/ Furnish'd and burnish'd by Aldershot sun.»
«But I'm dying now and done for, / What on earth was all the fun for? / For I'm old and ill and terrified and tight.»
Author: John Betjeman | Keywords: terrified
«The Church's Restoration / In eighteen-eighty-three / Has left for contemplation / Not what there used to be.»
«Phone for the fish-knives, Norman, / As Cook is a little unnerved; / You kiddies have crumpled the serviettes / And I must have things daintily served.»
«Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough. / It isn't fit for humans now.»
Author: John Betjeman | Keywords: bombs, slough
«People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.»