Somewhere in the back of their minds, hosts and guests alike know that the dinner party is a source of untold irritation,… — Craig Brown Alike Copy Share Image
Like many men who play tennis, when I hit a ball into the net, I tend to look daggers at my racket,… — Craig Brown Badly 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 About 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… — Craig Brown Bedroom Copy Share Image
Everyone must know by now that the aim of Scrabble is to gain the moral high ground, the loser being the first… — Craig Brown Aim Copy Share Image
When I was young, I used to expect Parisians to wear little black berets, to bicycle about with strings of onions around… — Craig Brown About Copy Share Image
Speaking for myself, I spend a good ten minutes a day deciding whether or not to read the results of new surveys,… — Craig Brown Day 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… — Craig Brown Bat Copy Share Image
Over the years, the idea seems to have grown up that brightly coloured flowers are vulgar, and that the only flowers to… — Craig Brown Admitted Copy Share Image
The best critics do not worry about what the author might think. That would be like a detective worrying about what a… — Craig Brown About Copy Share Image
Words have a life of their own. There is no telling what they will do. Within a matter of days, they can… — Craig Brown Days Copy Share Image
In its heyday, the blazer had come to symbolise a kind of conventional decency. Yacht club commodores and school bursars wore blazers.… — Craig Brown Blazer Copy Share Image
People think of waves as going in an orderly crash - whoosh - crash - whoosh, but in fact there are lots… — Craig Brown Crash Copy Share Image
Looking back, some of the happiest moments of my childhood were spent with my arm in packets of breakfast cereal, rootling around… — Craig Brown Arm Copy Share Image
It is hard being a football loather, a football unfan. I sometimes feel as lonely as the sole survivor in the last… — Craig Brown Arms 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… — Craig Brown Became 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… — Craig Brown How 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… — Craig Brown Aged Copy Share Image
Some people see life as a game of chess, while others prefer to see it as a game of cricket; but the… — Craig Brown Chess Copy Share Image
Comedy is the slave of time. What seemed funny then is unlikely to seem funny now, just as what strikes us as… — Craig Brown Comedy Copy Share Image
Often, I grow irritated before the first tile has been placed on the Scrabble board. This generally occurs when one of my… — Craig Brown Been 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… — Craig Brown Chance 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 Away Copy Share Image
Andrew Lloyd Webber is one of those odd moth-like creatures who seem to combine extreme discomfort with the spotlight with an unstoppable… — Craig Brown Andrew 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 Always Copy Share Image
“another of their acquaintances finds himself mesmerised by the way that he 'always had something of ... rivetting stupidity to say on… — Craig Brown Elizabeth taylor Copy Share Image
What would we do without plaques to tell us who lived where and when? They introduce the past into the present, and… — Craig Brown Above Copy Share Image
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