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Neville Cardus
9 quotes
“For the game is everlasting only insofar as we keep returning to it for delights put into it by countless boys of all ages.”
Neville Cardus (1888–1975) first seen 1930 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cricket (1930)
“Dear, lovely game of cricket that can stir us so profoundly, that can lift up our hearts and break them.”
Neville Cardus (1888–1975) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Good Days (1934)
“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.”
Neville Cardus (1888–1975) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Good Days (1934)
“A cultured aromatist.”
Neville Cardus (1888–1975) first seen 1935 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov; Manchester Guardian (1935)
“If a German or an Austrian, a Greek or a Bashibazouk, had composed Gerontius, the whole world would have by now admitted its qualities.”
Neville Cardus (1888–1975) first seen 1939 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Manchester Guardian (1939)
“Even an ordinary broken chord is made to disclose rare beauties; we are reminded of the fairies' hazelnuts in which diamonds were concealed but you could break the shell only if your hands were blessed.”
Neville Cardus (1888–1975) first seen 1939 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Of Rachmaninoff's playing; Manchester Guardian (1939)
“A great composition to me is ... an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence.”
Neville Cardus (1888–1975) first seen 1944 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Preface to Ten Composers, August 1944.
“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.”
Neville Cardus (1888–1975) first seen 1958 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Manchester Guardian (1958)
“It is the only one in existence that might conceivably have been composed by God.”
Neville Cardus (1888–1975) first seen 1961 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Of Mozart's "The Magic Flute"; Manchester Guardian (1961)