The first thing I hear when I wake up is the sea, which is so close to our house that its reflections… — Craig Brown 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 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 Copy Share Image
You might think that religion was the one area in which professional jealousy would take a back seat. But no: ecclesiastical memoirs… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
Traditionally, wake-up calls are meant to wake you up rather than send you to sleep: the clue is in the wording. But… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
Whenever television cameras are interviewing people in their homes, I tend to look over their shoulders and have a good snoop at… — Craig Brown 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 Copy Share Image
In real life, nothing would be more tedious than trailing around after two strangers as they went house-hunting in Hertfordshire. But for… — Craig Brown 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 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 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 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
Women are more sensitive, more practical, more intelligent, more balanced, better able to deal with people, better cooks, better parents, better carers,… — Craig Brown 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
People think of waves as going in an orderly crash - whoosh - crash - whoosh, but in fact there are lots… — Craig Brown 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 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 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 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 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
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 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
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
Often, I grow irritated before the first tile has been placed on the Scrabble board. This generally occurs when one of my… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
