Top 40 Cardus Quotes
#1. Whoever makes you laugh hard, he will make you cry madly.
Merce Cardus
#3. In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless ... In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously.
Neville Cardus
#4. Dear, lovely game of cricket that can stir us so profoundly, that can lift up our hearts and break them.
Neville Cardus
#5. We remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination.
Neville Cardus
#6. The Australian temper is at bottom grim. It is as though the sun has dried up his nature.
Neville Cardus
#7. No matter where we come from, a little sugar is what everybody demands in life, what everybody needs in life. It's perhaps the main ingredient that keeps us alive.
Merce Cardus
#8. Even an ordinary broken chord is made to disclose rare beauties; we are reminded of the fairies' hazelnuts in which diamonds were concealed but you could break the shell only if your hands were blessed.
Neville Cardus
#10. I do things because I enjoy it. That used to be my downfall, but now it's the upside.
Waris Ahluwalia
#11. No need to worry. The closest I've ever come to an STD was a kidney infection. I always put a raincoat on the little fella before heading into a storm.
L. H. Cosway
#12. Like the British constitution, cricket was not made: it has 'grown'.
Neville Cardus
#13. ...my insides were ulcerous from coffee and terror.
Donald Antrim
#14. A snick by Jack Hobbs is a sort of disturbance of a cosmic orderliness.
Neville Cardus
#15. The worst kind of poison for despots: truth.
Kay Kenyon
#16. There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass.
Neville Cardus
#17. I don't want to make it a hard, fast rule, but it's surprising how many 'fun for the whole family' acts are real scumbags. The people that confess they're scumbags on stage are generally really great people. They're more honest with the audience with who they are.
Kyle Kinane
#18. Often in this our life do we begin by cursing men and end by loving them. A sense of the common fallibility of all flesh makes us kin. No man is lovable who is invincible.
Neville Cardus
#19. There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.
Steve Ballmer
#20. I understand now that a Trojan of literary achievement writes out of passion, out of necessity.
Merce Cardus
#22. Cricket more than any other game is inclined towards sentimentalism and cant.
Neville Cardus
#24. The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality.
Neville Cardus
#25. Edward, it will take time to find a willing and acceptable match, won't it? Decent men do not hang about at crossroads just waiting for ruined women to take them home.
Victoria Dahl
#26. HELEN HAYES: "Which part of The Divine Comedy do you like the most, Tiziano?"
TIZIANO CONTI: "The fifth Canto."
HELEN HAYES: "The Hell, huh?"
TIZIANO CONTI: "L'inferno depicts the truth.
Merce Cardus
#27. A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.
Neville Cardus
#28. The great passions had never been moved by a perfect body but by an evolved mind.
Merce Cardus
#29. A great composition to me is.. an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence.
Neville Cardus
#30. Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in it; he was under none to begin. A modest or inhibited autobiography is written without entertainment to the writer and read with distrust by the reader.
Neville Cardus
#31. If you are eagerly looking for salvation, and if you believe in God, you may ... become acquainted with the Christ of God, and, after being initiated [a reference to baptism], live a happy life.
Justin Martyr
#33. Call me a bad private eye, but I came to the conclusion that nobody is happy with what they've got. You have a healthy relationship, then, you look for a spicy one. You have an unhealthy relationship, your struggle is to find a peaceful one.
Merce Cardus
#34. [Showing the apartment to Tiziano ]
MARLEEN WALKER: "Let me alert you that animals are banned in this building."
TIZIANO CONTI: "Am I breaking the law right now?
Merce Cardus
#35. The umpire ... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order.
Neville Cardus
#36. If a German or an Austrian, a Greek or a Bashibazouk, had composed Gerontius, the whole world would have by now admitted its qualities.
Neville Cardus
#38. Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing cocktails, he offered the public pure cold water.
Neville Cardus
#40. She was often in danger of forgetting what she was.
Hugh Howey
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