Craig Brown Quotes

A decent beard has long been the number one must-have fashion item for any fugitive from justice.
Alan Whicker may be the last Briton to have worn a silver-buttoned blazer with complete confidence.
All the wealthiest people in the U.S. seem compelled to brag about how humble they are.
Andrew Lloyd Webber is one of those odd moth-like creatures who seem to combine extreme discomfort with the spotlight with an unstoppable compulsion to leap into it.
As a rough rule of thumb, I would say the smaller the pond, the more belligerent the fish.
As life goes on, we accrue more and more loseable objects. Providence dictates that objects that are too large to lose, such as houses, always come with tiny little keys, specially designed to give you the slip.
By and large, the artistic establishment disapproved of Margaret Thatcher.
Children are perfectly happy to sit next to spiders; it is only grown-ups who are frightened away.
Cleanliness is the scourge of art.
Comedy is the slave of time. What seemed funny then is unlikely to seem funny now, just as what strikes us as funny now would not have seemed funny then.
Everyone must know by now that the aim of Scrabble is to gain the moral high ground, the loser being the first player to slam the board shut and upset all the letters over the floor.
For some reason, it is always thrilling to spot your home town in the news.
Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.
How I hate the Beautiful Game! I hate its cry-baby players and its gruff, joyless managers, its blokish supporters and its sinister owners, its whistle-peeping referees and its chippy little linesmen, its excitable commentators and - perhaps most of all - its unpluggable 'analysts.'
I have twice met Jeffrey Archer, and on both occasions was struck by the firmness of his handshake - and the way he looked me straight in the eye, too.
In its heyday, the blazer had come to symbolise a kind of conventional decency. Yacht club commodores and school bursars wore blazers. People who played bowls wore blazers.
In real life, nothing would be more tedious than trailing around after two strangers as they went house-hunting in Hertfordshire. But for some reason, television is more compelling than real life.
It is hard being a football loather, a football unfan. I sometimes feel as lonely as the sole survivor in the last reel of a Zombie film, as, one by one, old friends reveal themselves, with their glassy stares and outstretched arms, to have succumbed to the lure.
It is only if you happen to be a newscaster that the tongue-twister spells peril.
It strikes me that golf's great virtue is that it gets you out of the house, away from everyday bothers, away from the endless round of looking for this, that and the other.
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