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 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
Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one. — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private. — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
The first sign builders are on their way is when - hey, presto! - a skip appears outside your house. — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
One of the many joys of tongue-twisters is that they serve no purpose beyond fun. — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
All the wealthiest people in the U.S. seem compelled to brag about how humble they are. — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
Children are perfectly happy to sit next to spiders; it is only grown-ups who are frightened away. — Craig Brown 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 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 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 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 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
The best critics do not worry about what the author might think. That would be like a detective worrying about what a… — Craig Brown 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 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
“One evening, at the time of the Six-Day War, I [Christopher Hitchens] had my wicked way with a lovely lady, who had… — Craig Brown 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 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 Copy Share Image
Men know something that women don't know. Never ask directions of a stranger. — Craig Brown 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 Copy Share Image
The news is increasingly full of mismatched people saying daft things to one another. — Craig Brown 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 Copy Share Image
By and large, the artistic establishment disapproved of Margaret Thatcher. — Craig Brown Art 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 Copy Share Image
For some reason, it is always thrilling to spot your home town in the news. — Craig Brown 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
More and more, I find that the news reads like a particularly random game of Consequences. — Craig Brown Consequences Copy Share Image
A decent beard has long been the number one must-have fashion item for any fugitive from justice. — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
It is only if you happen to be a newscaster that the tongue-twister spells peril. — Craig Brown 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 Copy Share Image
Alan Whicker may be the last Briton to have worn a silver-buttoned blazer with complete confidence. — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
The only behaviour that is truly common is to avoid doing something because you think others might consider it common. — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
The British love of queuing and discomfort and being bossed around seems to have found a new outlet in the pop festival. — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
One of the tricks of life is to have sense and money in roughly equal proportions. — Craig Brown 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 Copy Share Image
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