The only behaviour that is truly common is to avoid doing something because you think others might consider it common. — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
You might think that religion was the one area in which professional jealousy would take a back seat. But no: ecclesiastical memoirs… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
As life goes on, we accrue more and more loseable objects. Providence dictates that objects that are too large to lose, such… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
Traditionally, wake-up calls are meant to wake you up rather than send you to sleep: the clue is in the wording. But… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
Like Christians, Soccerians argue that you should not judge the essence of their faith by the loopy activities of its followers. But… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
It strikes me that golf's great virtue is that it gets you out of the house, away from everyday bothers, away from… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
Just as there is something about an empty skip that makes you want to fill it, so there is something about a… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
When cars honk and hoot and drunks squeeze out of car windows and scream, you can be sure that football is in… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
It is only if you happen to be a newscaster that the tongue-twister spells peril. — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with procrastination. Or is there? I'll leave it to you to decide, but only if you have the time. — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
The first thing I hear when I wake up is the sea, which is so close to our house that its reflections from the… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
The British love of queuing and discomfort and being bossed around seems to have found a new outlet in the pop festival. — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
Men know something that women don't know. Never ask directions of a stranger. — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
The only behaviour that is truly common is to avoid doing something because you think others might consider it common. — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
Like the periwig and the bowler bat, the plus-four and the bow-tie, the blazer is on the way out, and those who persist in… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
“One evening, at the time of the Six-Day War, I [Christopher Hitchens] had my wicked way with a lovely lady, who had earlier intimated… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
When I tell people I don't own a mobile phone and wouldn't know how to text, they react as though I have just confessed… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
“another of their acquaintances finds himself mesmerised by the way that he 'always had something of ... rivetting stupidity to say on any subject'.” — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
Like the firm handshake and looking people straight in the eye, the blazer had originally been a symbol of trust. Because of this, it… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
Many people see the chance to eat something for nothing, without the need to cook or wash up, as the great consolation of going… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
When I was a boy, I used to stay with a school friend in Bexhill, in Sussex, which was then well-known for being the… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
