It was a universal truth among males that anytime you saw…

A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and…

— Jeanette Winterson

A Grand Design we couldn't see because we were part of it. A Grand Design we only got occasional, fleeting glimpses of. A Grand…

— Connie Willis

They were adored by the Germans, who thought they were exactly what Englishmen ought to be. They made war look stylish and reasonable, and…

— Anonymous

Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English.

— Jane Kaczmarek

“It’s a universal truth that nothing spoils a postlunch game of croquet like suspecting the other players of murder.”

— Shannon Hale

So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many…

— Rose Macaulay

So far rich people have been very quiet about the possibility of getting taxes raised on them, but that doesn't mean they won't get…

— Craig Ferguson

I am not a Jew for Jesus but I am definitely a Jew for Christmas. Christmas is one of the best things you Christians…

— David Brooks

Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for…

— Lewis Carroll

You're doing it again. Using reason to argue faith. Can't be done. Like playing croquet with a crochet hook. Sounds something like the right…

— Anonymous

My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Monogamy is like croquet: you get the hang of it, eventually, but it’s never fun to play.”

— W. Nogueira Cury

Here's a riddle: When is a croquet mallet like a billy club? I'll tell you: Whenever you want it to be!

— Cheshire Cat

It was a universal truth among males that anytime you saw a guy get it in the nuts, you experienced a shot of phantom…

— J.R. Ward

“Get me into the game, Izzy," Cameron said when he reached Isabella at the edge of Hart’s well-groomed lawn. Pairs of ladies and gentlemen…

— Jennifer Ashley