Neville Cardus

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

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

— Neville Cardus

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

A cultured aromatist.

— Neville Cardus

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

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

A great composition to me is.. an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence.

— Neville Cardus

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

It is the only one in existence that might conceivably have been composed by God.

— Neville Cardus