Neville Cardus famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Telling The Truth #Should #Cricket
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 #Hands #Broken
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
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
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

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