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.
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
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
It is far more than a game, this cricket. - Neville Cardus
It is far more than a game, this cricket.
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
There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass.
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 lova… - Neville Cardus
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 lova…
A snick by Jack Hobbs is a sort of disturbance of a cosmic orderliness. - Neville Cardus
A snick by Jack Hobbs is a sort of disturbance of a cosmic orderliness.
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 … - Neville Cardus
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 …
Dear, lovely game of cricket that can stir us so profoundly, that can lift up our hearts and break them. - Neville Cardus
Dear, lovely game of cricket that can stir us so profoundly, that can lift up our hearts and break them.
A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself. - Neville Cardus
A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.
Like the British constitution, cricket was not made: it has 'grown'. - Neville Cardus
Like the British constitution, cricket was not made: it has 'grown'.
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