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Sir John Frederick Neville Cardus, CBE was an English writer and critic. From an impoverished home background, and mainly self-educated, he became The Manchester Guardian's cricket correspondent in 1919 and its chief music critic in 1927, holding the two posts simultaneously until 1940. His contributions to these two distinct fields in the years before the Second World War established his reputation as one of the foremost critics of his generation.

English - Writer | April 3, 1888 - February 28, 1975

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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

There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass.

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 far more than a game, this cricket.

Neville Cardus

A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.

Neville Cardus

The elements are cricket's presiding geniuses.

Neville Cardus

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

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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.

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

Neville Cardus

A snick by Jack Hobbs is a sort of disturbance of a cosmic orderliness.

Neville Cardus

In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless.... In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously.

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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

The umpire... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order.

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.

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Cricket more than any other game is inclined towards sentimentalism and cant.

Neville Cardus

The Australian temper is at bottom grim. It is as though the sun has dried up his nature.

Neville Cardus

Like the British constitution, cricket was not made: it has 'grown'.

Neville Cardus