Neville Cardus Quotes
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.
We remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination.
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.
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.
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.
Dear, lovely game of cricket that can stir us so profoundly, that can lift up our hearts and break them.
If a German or an Austrian, a Greek or a Bashibazouk, had composed Gerontius, the whole world would have by now admitted its qualities.
The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality.
A great composition to me is.. an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence.
The Australian temper is at bottom grim. It is as though the sun has dried up his nature.