Quotes by Neville Cardus - Page 1

It is far more than a game, this cricket.
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Cricket
Games
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The elements are cricket's presiding geniuses.
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Cricket
Elements
Genius
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Like the British constitution, cricket was not made: it has 'grown'.
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Constitution
Cricket
Made
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A snick by Jack Hobbs is a sort of disturbance of a cosmic orderliness.
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Cosmic
Disturbance
Orderliness
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A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.
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Cricket Funny
Should
Telling The Truth
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Cricket more than any other game is inclined towards sentimentalism and cant.
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Cant
Cricket
Games
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The Australian temper is at bottom grim. It is as though the sun has dried up his nature.
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Grim
Sun
Temper
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Dear, lovely game of cricket that can stir us so profoundly, that can lift up our hearts and break them.
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Games
Heart
Lovely
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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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Composition
Genius
Incarnation
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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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Imagination
Men
Years
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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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Sports
Order
Umpires
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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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Baseball
Games
Mean
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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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Compromise
Law
Orderliness
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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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Quality
Greek
World
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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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Age
Cocktails
Water
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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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Men
Common
Flesh
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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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Average
Baseball
Law
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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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Blessed
Hands
Rare Beauty
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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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Distrust
Entertainment
May
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