All Neville Cardus Quotes
- The umpire... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order. Bathroom
- A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself. Batsman
- In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless.... In no other game does the law… Average
- There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass. Ass
- Even an ordinary broken chord is made to disclose rare beauties; we are reminded of the fairies' hazelnuts in which diamonds were concealed but you… Beauties
- Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing cocktails, he offered the public pure cold… Age
- Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in… All
- We remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination. Imagination