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It's strange that those we miss the most Are those we take for granted. — John Betjeman

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

I ought to warn you that my verse is of no interest to people who can think. — John Betjeman

The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years. — Matt Ridley

Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now,
There isn't grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death! — John Betjeman

The laughter got Jenny's attention. There was something woven into it. Something sad and hesitant. — Amanda Gray

Soft and sun-warm, see her glide — John Betjeman

Silver and ermine and red faces full of port wine. — John Betjeman

I don't know if
you know this about me, but I am a soldier.
Or the leader of God's army, but okay, let's be modest. — Cynthia Hand

Approval of what is approved of
Is as false as a well-kept vow. — John Betjeman

And now, dear Lord, I cannot wait Because I have a luncheon date. — John Betjeman

And marbled clouds go scudding by
The many-steepled London sky. — John Betjeman

There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it. — Mahatma Gandhi

Hymns are the poetry of the people. — John Betjeman

Oh better far those echoing hells
Half-threaten'd in the pealing bells
Than that this 'I' should cease to be - — John Betjeman

Touch my heart, feel my love,
don't look at me. — Debasish Mridha

Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music.. — John Betjeman

I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be. — John Betjeman

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. — John Betjeman

Oh Wasn't it naughty of Smudges? Oh, Mummy, I'm sick with disgust. She threww me in front of the judges, And my silly old collar-bone's bust. — John Betjeman

Imprisoned in a cage of sound, even the trivial seems profound — John Betjeman

A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion. — Frederick Scott Oliver

On out deathbeds we're not going to regret all the work we didn't do. We're going to regret all the sex we didn't have! — John Betjeman

But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it. — Mary Stewart

One mark of good verse is surprise — John Betjeman

Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold. — John Betjeman

I have a Vision of the Future, chum. The workers flats in fields of soya beans tower up like silver pencils, score on score. — John Betjeman

I would've given him every part of me if he wanted it. — Ava Dellaira

A whispering and watery Norfolk sound
Telling of all the moonlit reeds around. — John Betjeman

While the Giver archetype is celebrated in our culture, the Receiver is almost wholly unknown. The result? Busyness is a virtue. ~Amanda Owen — Amanda Owen

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