Quotes About Croquet

#1. I had a momentary vision of Brooklands' entire middle class, its prosperous lawyers, doctors and senior managers, being confined to their own ghetto, with nothing to do all day except groom their ponies and swing their croquet mallets.

J.G. Ballard

#2. This was an away-day for the deputy prime minister's staff, who've had a change of responsibilities [on John Prescott's scandalous playing habits ... on the croquet lawn]

Paul Clark

#3. You're doing it again. Using reason to argue faith. Can't be done. Like playing croquet with a crochet hook. Sounds something like the right tool for the job, but isn't.

K.J. Bishop

#4. I am not a Jew for Jesus but I am definitely a Jew for Christmas. Christmas is one of the best things you Christians have given us, along with mac and cheese, Bono, croquet and politeness.

David Brooks

#5. The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

Ernest Hemingway,

#6. She bid me to look out on the lawn at the leper girls who were running on lame feet, playing croquet with crippled hands.
"There is beauty," she said, "in the least beautiful of things.

Alan Brennert

#7. He was the sort of languid and elegant young man one would expect to find at a country house party, playing croquet with Bertie Wooster. Frightfully good fun, but not too many brains.

Rhys Bowen

#8. Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.

Lewis Carroll

#9. It was a universal truth among males that anytime you saw a guy get it in the nuts, you experienced a shot of phantom pain in your own croquet set.

J.R. Ward

#10. If it turned out Brandon Stark also likes to dress up as Strwberry Shortcake while playing croquet with his miniture pony collection, I totally wouldn't be surprised anymore.

Meg Cabot

#11. It's a universal truth that nothing spoils a postlunch game of croquet like suspecting the other players of murder.

Shannon Hale

#12. They were adored by the Germans, who thought they were exactly what Englishmen ought to be. They made war look stylish and reasonable, and fun ...
They were dressed half for battle, half for tennis or croquet.

Kurt Vonnegut

#13. So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor.

Rose Macaulay

#14. Call it what you like,' said the Cat. 'Do you play croquet with the Queen to-day?' 'I should like it very much,' said Alice, 'but I haven't been invited yet.' 'You'll see me there,' said the Cat, and vanished.

Lewis Carroll

#15. I say, Billy, what's the use in playing croquet when you're doomed?
He says, Frankie, what's the use of not playing croquet when you're doomed?

Frank McCourt

#16. He's looking at me. I can feel his eyes from across the yard, where he's losing a game of croquet to his niece, Piper. He's only pretending to try, I think, but it's hard to tell because I'm definitely not looking at him.

Jessica Martinez

#17. A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play croquet with the flamingos. In Wonderland everyone cheats and love is Wonderland, isn't it?

Jeanette Winterson

#18. Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English.

Jane Kaczmarek

#19. Here's a riddle: When is a croquet mallet like a billy club? I'll tell you: Whenever you want it to be!

Cheshire Cat

#20. Long ago life was clean, sex was bad and obscene, and the rich were so mean. Stately homes for the Lords, croquet lawns, village greens, Victoria was my queen.

Ray Davies

#21. I reached out for something else and found it: the red croquet mallet, just occurring there on the ground like some easy device, some plot element stashed there for the big finale.

Daniel Handler

#22. Croquet is bastardized roque.

Stephen King

#23. I love DKNY. I love her sweaters because I can take them and just wear nothing underneath and just wrap them.

Jackee Harry

#24. I'd like to work with Outkast, I'd like to work with RZA, I'd like to work with Timbaland, York, a whole bunch of people.

Talib Kweli

#25. May we all beware lest our innovative ideas appear very cliche before we even blink.

David Livermore

#26. I am one of those marranes who no longer say they are Jews even in the secret of their own hearts.

Jacques Derrida

#27. Choose to be good and kind and tolerant regardless of the situation or who's involved, because life is more a matter of developing character than of dishing out just rewards.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#28. And it really pisses Peter and Micky off when I get onto one of those tangents where I start to do humor.

Davy Jones

#29. What if I never remember again? What if I was never able to talk again?

Jessica Madden

#30. When you fall in a river, you're no longer a fisherman; you're a swimmer.

Gene Hill