Top 26 Neville Cardus Quotes

#1. Cricket more than any other game is inclined towards sentimentalism and cant.

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#2. The elements are cricket's presiding geniuses.

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#3. Black Humor (Umor): a sensation --of the theatrical (and joyless) pointlessness of everything.

Jacques Vache

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#4. And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying.

Christina Rossetti

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#5. The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality.

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#6. A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.

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#7. A great composition to me is.. an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence.

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#8. 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.

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#9. 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.

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#10. If a German or an Austrian, a Greek or a Bashibazouk, had composed Gerontius, the whole world would have by now admitted its qualities.

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#11. Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.

Charles Krauthammer

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#12. 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.

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#13. It is far more than a game, this cricket.

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#14. People fall in love', I say, my voice hoarse. 'It happens.

Ally Condie

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#15. 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.

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#16. Dear, lovely game of cricket that can stir us so profoundly, that can lift up our hearts and break them.

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#17. We remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination.

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#18. The Australian temper is at bottom grim. It is as though the sun has dried up his nature.

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#19. 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.

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#20. Could it be, as one writer puts it, that every knock at the door of a brothel is actually a knock at the heart of God?

Randy Elrod

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#21. Like the British constitution, cricket was not made: it has 'grown'.

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#22. A snick by Jack Hobbs is a sort of disturbance of a cosmic orderliness.

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#23. There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass.

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#24. Hi there! This is Eddie, your shipboard computer, and I'm feeling just great, guys, and I know I'm just going to get a bundle of kicks out of any program you care to run through me.

Douglas Adams

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#25. 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.

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#26. I don't wanna go on vacation. There's nothing about it that appeals to me. People look forward to doing that; I look forward to getting up every day and doing something.

Gene Simmons

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