Quotes by John Betjeman

• Silver and ermine and red faces full of port wine.
• I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.
• Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.
• Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
• People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.
• Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.