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… — Neville Cardus Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further… — Neville Cardus Copy Share Image
A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself. — Neville Cardus Copy Share Image
Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing cocktails, he offered the public pure… — Neville Cardus Copy Share Image
A great composition to me is.. an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence. — Neville Cardus Copy Share Image
The Australian temper is at bottom grim. It is as though the sun has dried up his nature. — Neville Cardus Copy Share Image
In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless.... In no other game does the… — Neville Cardus Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Even an ordinary broken chord is made to disclose rare beauties; we are reminded of the fairies' hazelnuts in which diamonds were concealed but… — Neville Cardus Copy Share Image
The umpire... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of… — Neville Cardus Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
