Top 26 Neville Cardus Quotes
#1. Cricket more than any other game is inclined towards sentimentalism and cant.
Neville Cardus
#3. Black Humor (Umor): a sensation --of the theatrical (and joyless) pointlessness of everything.
Jacques Vache
#5. The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality.
Neville Cardus
#6. A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.
Neville Cardus
#7. A great composition to me is.. an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence.
Neville Cardus
#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.
Neville Cardus
#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.
Neville Cardus
#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.
Neville Cardus
#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
#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.
Neville Cardus
#14. People fall in love', I say, my voice hoarse. 'It happens.
Ally Condie
#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.
Neville Cardus
#16. Dear, lovely game of cricket that can stir us so profoundly, that can lift up our hearts and break them.
Neville Cardus
#17. 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
#18. The Australian temper is at bottom grim. It is as though the sun has dried up his nature.
Neville Cardus
#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.
Neville Cardus
#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
#21. Like the British constitution, cricket was not made: it has 'grown'.
Neville Cardus
#22. A snick by Jack Hobbs is a sort of disturbance of a cosmic orderliness.
Neville Cardus
#23. 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
#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
#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.
Neville Cardus
#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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