Cricket Match Quotes by G.M.W. Wemyss

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“At all times and in all places, in season and out of season, time is now and England, place is now and England; past and present inter-penetrate. The best days an angler spends upon his river – the river which…

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“In East Sussex, let us say, an old farm sleeps in sun-dapple, its oast-house with its cowls echoing the distant steeple of SS Andrew and Mary, Fletching, where de Montfort had prayed and Gibbon now sleeps out a sceptic’s eternity. The Sussex Weald is quiet now, its bows and bowmen that did affright the air at Agincourt long dust. A…

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“Arcady, like Death its denizen with us, is all around us, if we – stalled beasts who want to be set forth – but see it. Forth, then, with Dan Geoffrey upon the heye wey: Forth, pilgrim, forth! Forth, beste, out of thy stal! Know thy contree, look up, thank God of all; Hold the heye wey, and lat thy…

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“At all times and in all places, in season and out of season, time is now and England, place is now and England; past and present inter-penetrate. The best days an angler spends upon his river – the river which is Heraclitus’ river, which is never the same as the angler is never the same, yet is the same always…

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“Sixty-five years ago [written 2009], in a brief lull between storms in a remarkably stormy June, even by the standards of Channel weather, the…

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“The American share of the crisis began with grossly improper mortgages provided to wholly unqualified borrowers, all directly caused and encouraged by government distortion…

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“There are two primary strains in the Conservative Party: grocers, and grandees. … By ‘grandees’ and ‘grocers’, I am not referring to social class…

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“… the countryside and the village are symbols of stability and security, of order. Yet they are also, as I have noted, liminal spaces,…

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“When does the year begin? Well: that rather depends: on who you are, and where. The Church kalendar – like the academic, which is…

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“Note, please, that I condemn only junk science (as does Mr Delingpole): this is in fact a measure of my, and his, regard for…

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“The Hitler War was my grandfather’s war; my father’s war – his and Uncle George’s – was Korea, which may have been just as…

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“Or awa’ upon Islay, in January, the wind was honed to a cutting edge across the queer flatness of Loch Gorm and the strand…

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“We live, all of us, in sprung rhythm. Even in cities, folk stir without knowing it to the surge in the blood that is…

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