"For the game is everlasting only insofar as we keep returning to it for delights put into it by countless boys of all…"

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

"A cultured aromatist."

"If a German or an Austrian, a Greek or a Bashibazouk, had composed Gerontius, the whole world would have by now admit…"

"Even an ordinary broken chord is made to disclose rare beauties; we are reminded of the fairies' hazelnuts in which d…"

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

"Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing co…"

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

"He has made a contribution to cricket which no one can ever duplicate. It may be true that cricket was always an art,…"

"His books are full of humour: rich comedy, sometimes almost slapstick, and yet he keeps us hovering between tears and…"