Craig Brown Quotes
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There are few things quite so effortlessly enjoyable as watching an eminent person getting in a huff and flouncing out of a television interview, often with microphone trailing.
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When I was a boy, I used to stay with a school friend in Bexhill, in Sussex, which was then well-known for being the town with more oldies than any other. Aged ten, I felt slightly embarrassed by this, though I'm not sure why.
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My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never.
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Often, I grow irritated before the first tile has been placed on the Scrabble board. This generally occurs when one of my opponents has insisted upon bringing a dictionary to the table, making it clear that he will be consulting it throughout the game.
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The British love of queuing and discomfort and being bossed around seems to have found a new outlet in the pop festival.
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Men know something that women don't know. Never ask directions of a stranger.
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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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The news is increasingly full of mismatched people saying daft things to one another.
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Alan Whicker may be the last Briton to have worn a silver-buttoned blazer with complete confidence.
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The only behaviour that is truly common is to avoid doing something because you think others might consider it common.
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It is only if you happen to be a newscaster that the tongue-twister spells peril.
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One of the many joys of tongue-twisters is that they serve no purpose beyond fun.
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As a rough rule of thumb, I would say the smaller the pond, the more belligerent the fish.
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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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I have twice met Jeffrey Archer, and on both occasions was struck by the firmness of his handshake - and the way he looked me straight in the eye, too.
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Words have a life of their own. There is no telling what they will do. Within a matter of days, they can even turn turtle and mean the opposite.