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✵ 28. srpen 1906 – 19. květen 1984   •   Další jména Sir John Betjeman
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“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)

“One mark of good verse is surprise.”

Radio Talk. BBC Radio 4 (2 August 1978)

“Hymns are the poetry of the people.”

Radio Talk: BBC Radio (4 July 1975)

“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.
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

“But I'm dying now and done for,
What on earth was all the fun for?
I am ill and old and terrified and tight.”

"Sun and Fun — Song of a Night-club Proprietress", from A Few Late Chrysanthemums.
Poetry