"The English are not a very spiritual people,……" — George Bernard Shaw
"The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity."
More Cricket Quotes
- I do love cricket - it's so very English. — Sarah Bernhardt
- I was playing cricket first and my cricket coach was the one that introduced me to track and field. — Usain Bolt
- To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in… — Ian Botham
- I'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket. — Danny Boyle
- I understand cricket - what's going on, the scoring - but I can't understand why. — Bill Bryson
- And from the phlox and mignonette Rich attars drift on every hand; And when star-vestured twilight comes The pale moths… — Clinton Scollard
- To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun. — Mary Russell Mitford
- I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who… — Katharine Whitehorn
- Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some… — Benjamin Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft
- Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain. — Alec Douglas-Home
- Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small… — Lucretius
- I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures. — Oscar Wilde