Constance Spry quotes:

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

Open your mind to every form of beauty

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.

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

During the war one accepted indifferent after-dinner coffee as a necessity, but when, after the war, one sought to find the coffee remembered of days gone by, one found disappointment. I was looking for the rich after-dinner coffee that literally curdled cream if anyone was foolish enough to spoil it with cream.