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

- Constance Spry

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…

- Constance Spry

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-hear…

- Constance Spry

Open your mind to every form of beauty

- Constance Spry

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

- Constance Spry

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…

- Constance Spry