Craig Brown Quotes

Craig Brown

Profession : Critic

Birth : May 23, 1957

Children are perfectly happy to sit next to spiders; it is only grown-ups who are frightened away.

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For some reason, it is always thrilling to spot your home town in the news.

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Just as there is something about an empty skip that makes you want to fill it, so there is something about a full skip that makes you want to empty it.

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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.

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There's nothing wrong with procrastination. Or is there? I'll leave it to you to decide, but only if you have the time.

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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.

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Tweeting is the go-to medium for the show-off and the shyster.

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Like many men who play tennis, when I hit a ball into the net, I tend to look daggers at my racket, reproaching it for playing so badly when I myself have been trying so hard.

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My father, a captain in the 5th Battalion of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, landed in Normandy the day after D-Day.

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Somewhere in the back of their minds, hosts and guests alike know that the dinner party is a source of untold irritation, and that even the dullest evening spent watching television is preferable.

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Men know something that women don't know. Never ask directions of a stranger.

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Over the years, the idea seems to have grown up that brightly coloured flowers are vulgar, and that the only flowers to be admitted to the walled garden of good taste are discreet and pastel-hued.

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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.

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The first thing I hear when I wake up is the sea, which is so close to our house that its reflections from the sun dapple our bedroom ceiling.

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The news is increasingly full of mismatched people saying daft things to one another.

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All the wealthiest people in the U.S. seem compelled to brag about how humble they are.

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Like Christians, Soccerians argue that you should not judge the essence of their faith by the loopy activities of its followers. But the Beautiful Game is in fact quite the opposite. It is badly designed and riddled with flaws.

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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.

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When I was young, I used to expect Parisians to wear little black berets, to bicycle about with strings of onions around their necks, and to brandish long sticks of bread, just like they used to do in school textbooks.

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The first sign builders are on their way is when - hey, presto! - a skip appears outside your house.

Craig Brown