21 Quotes by Neville Cardus

It is far more than a game, this cricket.

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.

A snick by Jack Hobbs is a sort of disturbance of a cosmic orderliness.

Like the British constitution, cricket was not made: it has 'grown'.

Dear, lovely game of cricket that can stir us so profoundly, that can lift up our hearts and break them.

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.

There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass.

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.

If a German or an Austrian, a Greek or a Bashibazouk, had composed Gerontius, the whole world would have by now admitted its qualities.