Croquet Quotes

• My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Attitude, Golf, Games

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.

  Lewis Carroll

  Flamingos, Firsts, Found

  Lewis Carroll (1972). “Alice in Wonderland”, p.55, Jeff Koo

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• Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English.

  Jane Kaczmarek

  Loco, Jugar, Gente

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• So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor.

  Rose Macaulay

  Deportes, Oportunidad, Juegos

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• El juego del golf perdería mucho si se permitieran los mazos de croquet y los tacos de billar en el putting green.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Deportes, Golf, Juegos

  Carta del 15 de mayo de 1925. "Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917 - 1961", libro editado por Carlos Baker, 1981.

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• Here's a riddle: When is a croquet mallet like a billy club? I'll tell you: Whenever you want it to be!

  Gato de Cheshire

  Clubs, Want, Riddle

  "Personaje de ficción: Gato de Cheshire". Videojuego "Alicia", www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• I say, Billy, what’s the use in playing croquet when you’re doomed? He says, Frankie, what’s the use of not playing croquet when you’re doomed?

  Frank McCourt

  Use, Doomed

  Frank McCourt (1999). “Angela's Ashes: A Memoir”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play croquet with the flamingos. In Wonderland everyone cheats and love is Wonderland, isn't it?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Love Is, Games, Play

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• Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.

  Lewis Carroll

  Children, Games, Two

  Lewis Carroll (2015). "Las aventuras de Alicia en el país de las maravillas y A través del espejo: 150th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)", p.26, Penguin

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• Piense en los muchos placeres especiales que ofrece un césped: un mullido colchón para un bebé que se arrastra; un criadero de lombrices para un petirrojo; una pista de croquet o bádminton; un diamante de béisbol; una perspectiva verde que conduce la mirada hacia un fondo de parterres, arbustos o setos; Sombras verdes: "Este césped, una alfombra llena de vida/con sombras proyectadas por las hojas", tan cambiante y fascinante como las olas del mar, ya sea moteado por la luz del sol bajo árboles de follaje claro, como el olmo y la acacia, o con sombras profundas, oscuras y sólidas, moviéndose lentamente como la marea, bajo el arce y el roble. ¡Esta alfombra!

  Katharine Sargento Angell White

  Leadership, Baseball, Baby

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• Long ago life was clean, sex was bad and obscene, and the rich were so mean. Stately homes for the Lords, croquet lawns, village greens, Victoria was my queen.

  Ray Davies

  Sex, Queens, Home

  Song: Victoria

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• So far rich people have been very quiet about the possibility of getting taxes raised on them, but that doesn't mean they won't get mad about it, it just means they don't know about it. Because it takes a while for bad news to reach a rich person. First their accountant has to tell the butler, who has to tell the servant, who wouldn't dare interrupt their game of croquet.

  Craig Ferguson

  Mean, Games, Mad

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• Lo estás haciendo de nuevo. Usar la razón para argumentar la fe. No se puede hacer. Como jugar al croquet con una aguja de crochet. Parece la herramienta adecuada para el trabajo, pero no lo es.

  K. J. Bishop

  Jobs, Sound, Tools

  K.J. Bishop (2004). “The Etched City”, p.99, Spectra

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• A Grand Design we couldn't see because we were part of it. A Grand Design we only got occasional, fleeting glimpses of. A Grand Design involving the entire course of history and all of time and space that, for some unfathomable reason, chose to work out its designs with cats and croquet mallets and penwipers, to say nothing of the dog. And a hideous piece of Victorian artwork. And us.

  Connie Willis

  Dog, Cat, Space

  Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.479, Bantam

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• I am not a Jew for Jesus but I am definitely a Jew for Christmas. Christmas is one of the best things you Christians have given us, along with mac and cheese, Bono, croquet and politeness.

  David Brooks

  Christian, Jesus, Cheese

  "The True Meaning of Christmas". Interview with Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. December 22, 2010.

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• Era una verdad universal entre los hombres que, cada vez que veías a un tío que le daban en los huevos, experimentabas un dolor fantasma en tu propio juego de croquet. Mientras Lassiter se agachaba junto al cuerpo de pretzel del Hermano, sintió un poco de náuseas y se tomó un momento para saborear lo que le colgaba entre las piernas, sólo para asegurar a los chicos de abajo que, por muy iconoclasta que fuera, algunas cosas eran sagradas.

  J.R. Ward

  Hermano, Dolor, Chicos

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• They were adored by the Germans, who thought they were exactly what Englishmen ought to be. They made war look stylish and reasonable, and fun... They were dressed half for battle, half for tennis or croquet.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fun, War, Tennis

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• My attempts at a lawn. Twice have we had the ground carefully dug up, and prepared; twice it has been sown with the best English seed... at considerable expense; ...and the end of all the trouble has been that a strong nor'wester has blown away both seed and soil, leaving only the hard, un-dug ground. ...there are the croquet things, lying idle in the verandah... they are likely to remain unused for ever.

  Bee Dawson

  Strong, Lying, Leaving

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• If it turned out Brandon Stark also likes to dress up as Strwberry Shortcake while playing croquet with his miniture pony collection, I totally wouldn't be surprised anymore.

  Meg Cabot

  Dresses, Ponies, Likes

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• It was a universal truth among males that anytime you saw a guy get it in the nuts, you experienced a shot of phantom pain in your own croquet set.

  J.R. Ward

  Pain, Nuts, Guy

  J.R. Ward (2012). “Lover Reborn: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.149, Penguin

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• This was an away-day for the deputy prime minister's staff, who've had a change of responsibilities [on John Prescott's scandalous playing habits... on the croquet lawn]

  Paul Clark

  Change, Responsibility, Habit

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