Neville Cardus quotes
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“A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.”
-- Neville CardusSource : Neville Cardus (1930). “Cricket”
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“Dear, lovely game of cricket that can stir us so profoundly, that can lift up our hearts and break them.”
-- Neville CardusSource : "Good Days". Book by Neville Cardus, 1934.
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“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.”
-- Neville CardusSource : Neville Cardus (2012). “Cardus on Cricket: A selection from the cricket writings of Sir Neville Cardus”, p.149, Souvenir Press
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“If a German or an Austrian, a Greek or a Bashibazouk, had composed Gerontius, the whole world would have by now admitted its qualities.”
-- Neville CardusSource : Manchester Guardian Newspaper, 1939.
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“Often in this our life do we begin by cursing men and end by loving them. A sense of the common fallibility of all flesh makes us kin. No man is lovable who is invincible.”
-- Neville CardusSource : Neville Cardus (2012). “Cardus on Cricket: A selection from the cricket writings of Sir Neville Cardus”, p.110, Souvenir Press
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“We remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination.”
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“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 it; he was under none to begin. A modest or inhibited autobiography is written without entertainment to the writer and read with distrust by the reader.”
-- Neville CardusSource : Neville Cardus (2012). “Autobiography”, p.56, Faber & Faber
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“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 water.”
-- Neville CardusSource : Sir Neville Cardus (1966). “The Delights of Music: A Critic's Choice”, London : Gollancz
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“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 could break the shell only if your hands were blessed.”
-- Neville CardusSource : The Manchester Guardian, 1939.
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“There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass.”
-- Neville CardusSource : 1981 A Fourth Innings with Cardus.
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“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 of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously.”
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“A great composition to me is.. an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence.”
-- Neville CardusSource : "Ten Composers". Book by Neville Cardus, August 1944.
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