C.S. Woolley Quotes

I was not depressed when they got me out. I have always taken my dismissals as part of the game.

In riding a horse, we borrow freedom.

Is there a man in the world who suffers as I do from the gross inadequacies of the human race?

Be temperate in your work, but don't carry the patience over into your leisure hours.

Put not your Knife to your mouth unless it be to eat an Egge.

Square cuts which ordinarily would have flashed to the boundary earned only two, and I believe that those two innings would have been worth 150 apiece in a county match.

When digging ceases to be a great game and becomes, as in Egypt, merely business, it will be a bad thing.

Still, I believe it is only a passing phase and cricket will one day produce an abundance of great players.

It is amazing how the public steadfastly refuse to attend the third day of a match when so often the last day produces the best and most exciting cricket.

In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now.

I cannot let this opportunity pass without placing on record how much I have enjoyed my cricket with Kent.

Those were the great days when plenty of amateurs could spare time for cricket.

Lots of times I was out through forcing the game.

He who is not proud of his own blood is not worthy of it.

Space travel is utter bilge. I don't think anybody will ever put up enough money to do such a thing. . . . It is all rather rot.

It was never a policy of the Kent team that the pitch must be occupied all day after winning the toss.

It is often argued that left-handed batsmen have an advantage compared with the right-handers. I do not agree.

In the constant pursuit of perfection, junk food will always be a rather painful stumbling block

Bon Jovi is most definitely the key to how I am able to write so much in a day

If you search for God you will find him and He will not give up on you".

My level of excitement is above cricket proportions

with man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible” (Matthew 19:26").

Any situation, circumstance or challenge is just a distraction and as you remain true to your goals and trust in God they will fall away".

Comparing yourself to others does nothing for you. Society has conditioned us to value people who fit a secular mold of perfection".

Ah well, I suppose that's the problem with trying to make others follow your own beliefs: what starts out as spiritual ardor too often becomes arrogance and bigotry.

In the pursuit of knowledge, no one should travel alone

Your vile and bitter diatribes only serve to show how vile and bitter you must be.

God made you the way He wanted you to be and He does not make mistakes. He has a plan for your life that is much bigger than you can imagine.

I write in a fantasy world so I can make up my own rules and can change facts when I want to. It's all about having control.

The people in your life should always be more important than the work you do.

It's 1am, I have fiction to write!

It is the prerogative of women to make men wait.

I am beginning to worry that my speech is becoming a rather incomprehensible mixture of a Victorian woman, an Australian Beach Bum and a Laddish city boy

Advice for a long and happy life - never tell a writer you have fixed their work. Ever.

One of my favourite things about being an author is waking up knowing that there are worlds just waiting to be discovered and created.

It was a dark, dismal afternoon, like they all seem to bethese days, when I got this call. I could hear the rainbattering the windowpane of my office when the phone rang.