"The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian……" — Alistair Cooke
"The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament."
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55 Quotes by Alistair Cooke
Alistair Cooke has 55 quotes on this site.
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Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.
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The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much…
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To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and…
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In golf, humiliations are the essence of the game.
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Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own.
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There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human…
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I wrote to Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I said: "Here is the sentence once written by the immortal Bobby Jones. I…
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So the British, of all ages, still walk the course. On trips to Florida or the American desert, they still…
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It is a wonderful tribute to the game or to the dottiness of the people who play it that for…
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The Scots say that Nature itself dictated that golf should be played by the seashore. Rather, the Scots saw in…
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I have an insane desire to shave a stroke or two off my handicap.
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They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why.
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More Edwardian Quotes
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one of 11 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was…
— Dan Aykroyd
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I hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone.
— Helena Bonham Carter
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Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.
— William Manchester
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I settled in with The Uninvited Guests thinking I knew what kind of Edwardian pleasures were in store: the fraught…
— Maile Meloy
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It's hard being gay in Edwardian times.
— Rob James-Collier
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Marmite - like that other little black-jar job, Bovril - is so much a Mark 1 staple-of-Empire brand, so much…
— Peter York
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...don't ask me why I know what an Edwardian smoking jacket looks like: let's just say it has something to…
— Ben Aaronovitch
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WWI is a romantic war, in all senses of the word. An entire generation of men and women left the…
— Anita Shreve
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The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and…
— Jason Alexander
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