Best Craig Brown Quotes
- Andrew Lloyd Webber is one of those odd moth-like creatures who seem to combine extreme discomfort with the spotlight with an unstoppable compulsion to leap… Andrew
- Some people see life as a game of chess, while others prefer to see it as a game of cricket; but the longer I live,… Chess
- The news is increasingly full of mismatched people saying daft things to one another. Daft
- A decent beard has long been the number one must-have fashion item for any fugitive from justice. Any
- The British love of queuing and discomfort and being bossed around seems to have found a new outlet in the pop festival. Around Seems
- When cars honk and hoot and drunks squeeze out of car windows and scream, you can be sure that football is in the air. Air
- It is hard being a football loather, a football unfan. I sometimes feel as lonely as the sole survivor in the last reel of a… Arms
- Like Christians, Soccerians argue that you should not judge the essence of their faith by the loopy activities of its followers. But the Beautiful Game… Activities
- Personally, I belong to the speedy school of golf. If it were left up to me, I would introduce a new rule that said every… Along
- Looking back, some of the happiest moments of my childhood were spent with my arm in packets of breakfast cereal, rootling around for a free… Arm
- Children are perfectly happy to sit next to spiders; it is only grown-ups who are frightened away. Children
- Alan Whicker may be the last Briton to have worn a silver-buttoned blazer with complete confidence. Alan
- 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 wearing… Bat
- In its heyday, the blazer had come to symbolise a kind of conventional decency. Yacht club commodores and school bursars wore blazers. People who played… Blazer
- Like the firm handshake and looking people straight in the eye, the blazer had originally been a symbol of trust. Because of this, it had… Became
- The first thing I hear when I wake up is the sea, which is so close to our house that its reflections from the sun… Bedroom
- People think of waves as going in an orderly crash - whoosh - crash - whoosh, but in fact there are lots of different crashes… All
- Somewhere in the back of their minds, hosts and guests alike know that the dinner party is a source of untold irritation, and that even… Alike
- Many people see the chance to eat something for nothing, without the need to cook or wash up, as the great consolation of going out… Chance
- By and large, the artistic establishment disapproved of Margaret Thatcher. Artistic
- Speaking for myself, I spend a good ten minutes a day deciding whether or not to read the results of new surveys, and, once I… Day
- My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never. Art
- Everyone must know by now that the aim of Scrabble is to gain the moral high ground, the loser being the first player to slam… Aim
- Monopoly may also end in tears, but its tensions are cruder, lacking the infinitely subtle shadings of irritation and acrimony provided by Scrabble. Acrimony
- Often, I grow irritated before the first tile has been placed on the Scrabble board. This generally occurs when one of my opponents has insisted… Been