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
Personally, I belong to the speedy school of golf. If it were left up to me, I would introduce a new rule… — Craig Brown After Copy Share Image
Like many men, I am highly skilled in the art of losing things but prefer to outsource the recovery process. — Craig Brown Am Copy Share Image
My father, a captain in the 5th Battalion of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, landed in Normandy the day after D-Day. — Craig Brown After Copy Share Image
Monopoly may also end in tears, but its tensions are cruder, lacking the infinitely subtle shadings of irritation and acrimony provided by… — Craig Brown Also Copy Share Image
More often than not, theatre critics bubble with enthusiasm about plays that are, when all is said and done, really pretty average. — Craig Brown About 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 Activities Copy Share Image
Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one. — Craig Brown Considered 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 first sign builders are on their way is when - hey, presto! - a skip appears outside your house. — Craig Brown Appears Copy Share Image
I have twice met Jeffrey Archer, and on both occasions was struck by the firmness of his handshake - and the way… — Craig Brown Both Copy Share Image
As a rough rule of thumb, I would say the smaller the pond, the more belligerent the fish. — Craig Brown Fish 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
Some of the most untidy writers have also been the most productive. Iris Murdoch, for instance, wrote a good 30 books in… — Craig Brown Also Copy Share Image
More and more, I find that the news reads like a particularly random game of Consequences. — Craig Brown Consequences 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
My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never. — Craig Brown Art 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
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
How I hate the Beautiful Game! I hate its cry-baby players and its gruff, joyless managers, its blokish supporters and its sinister… — Craig Brown Analyst Copy Share Image
One of the tricks of life is to have sense and money in roughly equal proportions. — Craig Brown Equal 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
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
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
