Neville Cardus Quotes

• 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

  Men, Years, Imagination

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

  Neville Cardus

  Telling The Truth, Should, Cricket Funny

  Neville Cardus (1930). “Cricket”

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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.

  Neville Cardus

  Baseball, Mean, Games

  1981 A Fourth Innings with Cardus.

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• It is far more than a game, this cricket.

  Neville Cardus

  Games, Cricket

  1981 A Fourth Innings with Cardus.

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• Like the British constitution, cricket was not made: it has 'grown'.

  Neville Cardus

  Constitution, Cricket, Made

  1945 English Cricket.

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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.

  Neville Cardus

  Sports, Order, Umpires

  Neville Cardus (2012). “Cardus on Cricket: A selection from the cricket writings of Sir Neville Cardus”, p.149, Souvenir Press

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

  Neville Cardus

  Heart, Games, Lovely

  "Good Days". Book by Neville Cardus, 1934.

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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.

  Neville Cardus

  Men, Flesh, Common

  Neville Cardus (2012). “Cardus on Cricket: A selection from the cricket writings of Sir Neville Cardus”, p.110, Souvenir Press

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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.

  Neville Cardus

  Baseball, Average, Law

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• A snick by Jack Hobbs is a sort of disturbance of a cosmic orderliness.

  Neville Cardus

  Orderliness, Cosmic, Disturbance

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• Cricket more than any other game is inclined towards sentimentalism and cant.

  Neville Cardus

  Games, Cricket, Cant

  Quoted in Sir Rupert Hart-Davis Cardus on Cricket (1977).

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• The elements are cricket's presiding geniuses.

  Neville Cardus

  Genius, Elements, Cricket

  1981 A Fourth Innings with Cardus.

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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.

  Neville Cardus

  Law, Orderliness, Compromise

  Quoted in Sir Rupert Hart-Davis Cardus on Cricket (1977).

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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.

  Neville Cardus

  Greek, Quality, World

  Manchester Guardian Newspaper, 1939.

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• The Australian temper is at bottom grim. It is as though the sun has dried up his nature.

  Neville Cardus

  Sun, Temper, Grim

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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

  Genius, Incarnation, Composition

  "Ten Composers". Book by Neville Cardus, August 1944.

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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.

  Neville Cardus

  May, Entertainment, Distrust

  Neville Cardus (2012). “Autobiography”, p.56, Faber & Faber

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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.

  Neville Cardus

  Blessed, Rare Beauty, Hands

  The Manchester Guardian, 1939.

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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.

  Neville Cardus

  Water, Age, Cocktails

  Sir Neville Cardus (1966). “The Delights of Music: A Critic's Choice”, London : Gollancz

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