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Top 20 John Betjeman Quotes (2024 Update)

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

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

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John Betjeman Quote: “It’s strange that those we miss the most Are those we take for granted.”

2. “It’s strange that those we miss the most Are those we take for granted.”

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John Betjeman Quote: “History must not be written with bias, and both sides must be given, even if there is only one side.”

3. “History must not be written with bias, and both sides must be given, even if there is only one side.”

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John Betjeman Quote: “Hymns are the poetry of the people.”

4. “Hymns are the poetry of the people.”

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John Betjeman Quote: “Hymn tunes are the nearest we’ve got to English folk music...”

5. “Hymn tunes are the nearest we’ve got to English folk music...”

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

6. “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

John Betjeman Quote: “Imprisoned in a cage of sound, even the trivial seems profound.”

7. “Imprisoned in a cage of sound, even the trivial seems profound.”

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John Betjeman Quote: “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.”

8. “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

John Betjeman Quote: “People’s backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.”

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

— John Betjeman

John Betjeman Quote: “I am still reeling with delight at the soaring majesty of Norfolk.”

10. “I am still reeling with delight at the soaring majesty of Norfolk.”

— John Betjeman

John Betjeman Quote: “And now, dear Lord, I cannot wait Because I have a luncheon date.”

11. “And now, dear Lord, I cannot wait Because I have a luncheon date.”

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John Betjeman Quote: “And London shops on Christmas Eve Are strung with silver bells and flowers As hurrying clerks the City leave To pigeon-haunted classic towers, And marbled clouds go scudding by The many-steepled London sky.”

12. “And London shops on Christmas Eve Are strung with silver bells and flowers As hurrying clerks the City leave To pigeon-haunted classic towers, And marbled clouds go scudding by The many-steepled London sky.”

— John Betjeman

John Betjeman Quote: “Lovers of Norfolk churches can never agree which is the best and I think one is either a Salle or a Cawston man.”

13. “Lovers of Norfolk churches can never agree which is the best and I think one is either a Salle or a Cawston man.”

— John Betjeman

John Betjeman Quote: “I don’t think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn’t be.”

14. “I don’t think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn’t be.”

— John Betjeman

John Betjeman Quote: “And I think it was the outline of that church tower at Belaugh against the sky which gave me a passion for churches so that every church I’ve past since I’ve wanted to stop and look in.”

15. “And I think it was the outline of that church tower at Belaugh against the sky which gave me a passion for churches so that every church I’ve past since I’ve wanted to stop and look in.”

— John Betjeman

John Betjeman Quote: “Norfolk would not be Norfolk without a church tower on the horizon or round a corner up a lane. We cannot spare a single Norfolk church. When a church has been pulled down the country seems empty or is like a necklace with a jewel missing.”

16. “Norfolk would not be Norfolk without a church tower on the horizon or round a corner up a lane. We cannot spare a single Norfolk church. When a church has been pulled down the country seems empty or is like a necklace with a jewel missing.”

— John Betjeman

John Betjeman Quote: “And behind their frail partitions Business women lie and soak, Seeing through the draughty skylight Flying clouds and railway smoke. Rest you there, poor unbelov’d ones, Lap your loneliness in heat, All too soon the tiny breakfast, Trolley-bus and windy street!”

17. “And behind their frail partitions Business women lie and soak, Seeing through the draughty skylight Flying clouds and railway smoke. Rest you there, poor unbelov’d ones, Lap your loneliness in heat, All too soon the tiny breakfast, Trolley-bus and windy street!”

— John Betjeman

John Betjeman Quote: “Gracious Lord, oh bomb the Germans. Spare their women for Thy Sake, And if that is not too easy, We will pardon Thy Mistake. But, gracious Lord, whate’er shall be, Don’t let anyone bomb me.”

18. “Gracious Lord, oh bomb the Germans. Spare their women for Thy Sake, And if that is not too easy, We will pardon Thy Mistake. But, gracious Lord, whate’er shall be, Don’t let anyone bomb me.”

— John Betjeman

John Betjeman Quote: “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.”

19. “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

John Betjeman Quote: “I ought to warn you that my verse is of no interest to people who can think.”

20. “I ought to warn you that my verse is of no interest to people who can think.”

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John Betjeman Quote: “One mark of good verse is surprise.”

21. “One mark of good verse is surprise.”

— John Betjeman

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