Children are perfectly happy to sit next to spiders; it is only grown-ups who are frightened away. — Craig Brown Away 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
For some reason, it is always thrilling to spot your home town in the news. — Craig Brown Always Copy Share Image
“Without anything being said, there were no women at our lunches. Not that we were talking pussy. Or not much. But it… — Craig Brown Christopher-hitchens Copy Share Image
By and large, the artistic establishment disapproved of Margaret Thatcher. — Craig Brown Art 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
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
A decent beard has long been the number one must-have fashion item for any fugitive from justice. — Craig Brown Any 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 Air 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
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
Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private. — Craig Brown Catty 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
“I [Christopher Hitchens] moved into Mart's sock—where you lived was your 'sock.' Your rug was your 'hair.' Your knee was still your… — Craig Brown Christopher-hitchens Copy Share Image
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
It is only if you happen to be a newscaster that the tongue-twister spells peril. — Craig Brown Happen Copy Share Image
There are few things quite so effortlessly enjoyable as watching an eminent person getting in a huff and flouncing out of a… — Craig Brown Effortlessly 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 Decide Copy Share Image
