Neville Cardus Quotes

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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.

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

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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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For the game is everlasting only insofar as we keep returning to it for delights put into it by countless boys of all ages.

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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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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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If everything else in this nation of ours were lost but cricket—her Constitution and the laws of England of Lord Halsbury—it would be possible to reconstruct from the theory and practice of cricket all the eternal Englishness which has gone to the establishment of that Constitution and the laws aforesaid.

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

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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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It is the only one in existence that might conceivably have been composed by God.

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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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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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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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