Neville Cardus Quotes

We remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination. - Neville Cardus

The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality. - Neville Cardus

The elements are cricket's presiding geniuses. - Neville Cardus

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 Cardus

In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously [on cricket] - Neville Cardus

His immense power is lightened by a rhythm which has in it as little obvious propulsion as a movement of music by Mozart. - Neville Cardus

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