Craig Brown
Craig Brown
Craig Edward Moncrieff Brownis an English critic and satirist, best known for his parodies in Private Eye...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth23 May 1957
australia bit hopefully mess worry
Australia is a bit of a mess but hopefully we won't have to worry too much about that for too much longer.
total
I had total confidence. He's made big ones before and he does it every day in practice.
affect forgotten guys indictment players playing quite resilient suspect
Players are resilient guys and tomorrow, quite frankly, I suspect it'll all be forgotten - after all, they're not playing for Sven, they are playing for England. So to say it could affect their performance, that's an indictment of the players.
certain hear judge jury rule upsets
It upsets me a lot that the jury doesn't get to hear a lot of things because the judge has to rule on certain things.
good strewn writers wrote
Some of the most untidy writers have also been the most productive. Iris Murdoch, for instance, wrote a good 30 books in a house strewn with rubbish.
badly hit men playing tend trying
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.
directions men women
Men know something that women don't know. Never ask directions of a stranger.
solution
This is not the right solution to the problem.
ambition brilliant coach full impeccable initiative pedigree surprise
You could tell then that he was an outstanding coach and a brilliant tactician. He was full of initiative and ambition and, having had an impeccable pedigree as a player, it's not a surprise that he's flourishing as a coach.
equal life money roughly tricks
One of the tricks of life is to have sense and money in roughly equal proportions.
bedroom close hear wake
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.
author best critics describe detective might reader suspect worry worrying
The best critics do not worry about what the author might think. That would be like a detective worrying about what a suspect might think. Instead, they treat the reader as an intelligent friend, and describe the book as honestly, and as entertainingly, as possible.
full
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.
deal women
Women are more sensitive, more practical, more intelligent, more balanced, better able to deal with people, better cooks, better parents, better carers, better leaders, and so on and so forth.