Constance Spry Quotes

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.

Constance Spry

• War
• Enough
• Coffee
• Rich
• Disappointment
• Foolish
• Accepted
• Indifferent

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• 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.

  

  Constance Spry
  • War
  • Enough
  • Coffee