Constance Spry Quotes

• One arranges flowers as the spirit moves you; to obey some inner prompting to put this colour with that, to have brilliance here, line there, a sense of opulence in this place or sparseness in that; to suit your surroundings, your mood, the weather, the occasion. In a word, to do as you please, just as, if you could, you might paint a picture.

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  Flower, Moving, Weather

  Constance Spry (1940). “Constance Spry's Garden Notebook”

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• Do whatever you please, follow your own star; be original if you want to be and don’t if you don’t want to be. Just be natural and gay and light-hearted and pretty and simple and overflowing and general and baroque and bare and austere and stylised and wild and daring and conservative, and learn and learn and learn. Open your mind to every form of beauty.

  Constance Spry

  Stars, Gay, Simple

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• Open your mind to every form of beauty

  Constance Spry

  Mente, Forma

  Constance Spry (1940). “Constance Spry's Garden Notebook”

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• China tea, the scent of hyacinths, wood fires and bowls of violets – that is my mental picture of an agreeable February afternoon.

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  Fire, Tea, Afternoon

  Constance Spry (1953). “A Constance Spry Anthology”

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• Some tulips last so long you could almost dust them off, and others you can't trust over night.

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  Night, Dust, Long

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• Durante la guerra uno aceptaba el café de sobremesa indiferente como una necesidad, pero cuando, después de la guerra, uno buscaba el café recordado de antaño, se encontraba con la decepción. Buscaba el rico café de sobremesa que literalmente cuajaba nata si alguien era tan tonto como para estropearlo con nata.

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  Disappointment, War, Coffee

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