John Betjeman Slough
"Slough" line 1, from Continual Dew (1937).
Poetry
John Betjeman: 30 citations0 J'aime
John Betjeman: Citations en anglais
“It was through looking at churches that I came to believe in the reason churches were built.”
The Best of Betjeman, John Guest, Penguin Modern Classics, 1985. Written in 1948. (Blisland)
"Devonshire Street W.1" line 1, from A Few Late Chrysanthemums (1954).
Poetry
“One mark of good verse is surprise.”
Radio Talk. BBC Radio 4 (2 August 1978)
"The Licorice Fields at Pontefract" from A Few Late Chrysanthemums.
Poetry
“I ought to warn you that my verse is of no interest to people who can think.”
Radio Talk. BBC Third Programme (1949)
“We sat in the car park till twenty to one
And now I'm engaged to Miss Joan Hunter Dunn.”
"A Subaltern's Love-song" line 43.
Poetry
“Hymns are the poetry of the people.”
Radio Talk: BBC Radio (4 July 1975)
"In Ireland with Emily" from New Bats in Old Belfries.
Poetry
"The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel" line 1, from Continual Dew.
Poetry
"Henley-on-Thames", from New Bats in Old Belfries.
Poetry
"In Westminster Abbey" line 1, from Old Lights for New Chancels (1940).
Poetry
“Yes, I haven't had enough sex.”
In an interview for the television documentary Time With Betjeman (February 1983), having been asked whether he had any regrets. <br class="br">As quoted in: Ned Sherrin, Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations http://books.google.gr/books?id=5q4XBa5jsy8C&dq=, Oxford University Press, 2008, p. 286
“It's strange that those we miss the most
Are those we take for granted.”
"The Hon. Sec." line 39, from High and Low (1966).
Poetry
"On a Portrait of a Deaf Man" line 25, from Old Lights for New Chancels.
Poetry
"Executive" line 1, from A Nip in the Air (1974).
Poetry
"Sun and Fun — Song of a Night-club Proprietress", from A Few Late Chrysanthemums.
Poetry
"Business Girls" line 13, from A Few Late Chrysanthemums.
Poetry
"Hymn", from Mount Zion (1931).
Poetry
“Ghastly Good Taste, or a Depressing Story of the Rise and Fall of English Architecture.”
Title and sub-title of book (1933)
"A Subaltern's Love-song" line 1, from New Bats in Old Belfries (1945).
Poetry
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