Croquet Quotes
16 quotes by 14 authors
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My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Consider the many special delights a lawn affords: soft mattress for a creeping baby; worm hatchery for a robin; croquet or badminton court; baseball diamond;…
— Katharine Sergeant Angell White
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This was an away-day for the deputy prime minister's staff, who've had a change of responsibilities [on John Prescott's scandalous playing habits... on the croquet…
— Paul Clark
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Long ago life was clean, sex was bad and obscene, and the rich were so mean. Stately homes for the Lords, croquet lawns, village greens,…
— Ray Davies
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Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English.
— Jane Kaczmarek
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The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
— Ernest Hemingway
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I say, Billy, what’s the use in playing croquet when you’re doomed? He says, Frankie, what’s the use of not playing croquet when you’re doomed?
— Frank McCourt
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They were adored by the Germans, who thought they were exactly what Englishmen ought to be. They made war look stylish and reasonable, and fun...…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this…
— Lewis Carroll
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A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play…
— Jeanette Winterson
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So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities…
— Rose Macaulay
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If it turned out Brandon Stark also likes to dress up as Strwberry Shortcake while playing croquet with his miniture pony collection, I totally wouldn't…
— Meg Cabot
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A Grand Design we couldn't see because we were part of it. A Grand Design we only got occasional, fleeting glimpses of. A Grand Design…
— Connie Willis
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It was a universal truth among males that anytime you saw a guy get it in the nuts, you experienced a shot of phantom pain…
— J R Ward
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It was a universal truth among males that anytime you saw a guy get it in the nuts, you experienced a shot of phantom pain…
— J R Ward
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Here's a riddle: When is a croquet mallet like a billy club? I'll tell you: Whenever you want it to be!
— Cheshire Cat
Who Wrote These Croquet Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 16 Croquet Quotes as follows: