Metro-Land (1973) quotes

View Quote 1906 births

View Quote 1984 deaths

View Quote First and Last Loves (1952).

View Quote John Piper (Penguin Books, 1944), p. 12.

View Quote London's Historic Railway Stations (1973)

View Quote Summoned By Bells (1960).

View Quote And behind their frail partitionsBusiness women lie and soak,Seeing through the draughty skylightFlying 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!

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View Quote As quoted in: Ned Sherrin, Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations, Oxford University Press, 2008, p. 286

View Quote 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.

View Quote 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!

View Quote English poets

View Quote Ghastly Good Taste, or a Depressing Story of the Rise and Fall of English Architecture.

View 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.

View Quote He sipped at a weak hock and seltzerAs he gazed at the London skiesThrough the Nottingham lace of the curtainsOr was it his bees-winged eyes?