Annoyed Quote by Rose Macaulay

“It’s a universal truth that nothing spoils a postlunch game of croquet like suspecting the other players of murder.”

— Shannon Hale

Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English.

— Jane Kaczmarek

To be a good sportsman, one must be a stoic and never show rancor in defeat, or triumph in victory, or irritation, no matter…

— Emily Post

“We played for about half an hour before I realized we were actually playing two different games. What I’d thought of as ludo was…

— Graham Parke

“Tennis is not a game. It's a sport and a puzzle, an endurance test. You do whatever you can to win. it has been…

— Maria Sharapova

Politics, as the cliche goes, is a full contact sport. When you choose to play, you're going to get hurt.

— Steve Kornacki

“Sports have nothing to do with fair play. They are bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in…

— George Orwell

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, and disregard of all the rules.

— George Orwell

There are a lot of good racquetball players out there, but playing the game and knowing the game are two different things. Because I…

— Kane Waselenchuk

“What was sport but a thin veneer over the factional fighting it had replaced—ritualized violence, bloody entertainment?”

— Erin Hart

It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent their conduct in…

— Will Self

“Generally speaking, words like 'agent of,' 'Democracy,' 'Freedom,' etc. meant something quite different in Party usage from what they meant in general usage; and…

— Arthur Koestler