“More and more, I find that the news reads like a particularly random g...” — Craig Brown Quote

“More and more, I find that the news reads like a particularly random game of Consequences.”

“Over the years, the idea seems to have grown up that brightly coloured flowers are vulgar, and that the only flowers to be admitted to the walled garden of good taste are discreet and pastel-hued.”

“In its heyday, the blazer had come to symbolise a kind of conventional decency. Yacht club commodores and school bursars wore blazers. People who played bowls wore blazers.”

“Traditionally, wake-up calls are meant to wake you up rather than send you to sleep: the clue is in the wording. But those who talk of wake-up calls tend to have an easy-going way with words.”

“By and large, the artistic establishment disapproved of Margaret Thatcher.”

“More often than not, theatre critics bubble with enthusiasm about plays that are, when all is said and done, really pretty average.”

“Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it?”

“It's a tough pill to swallow, but if I was going to stand for something as an artist, and every time that had consequences I decided not to do it, that'd be pointless.”

“This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.”

“If we find it hard to believe that winning millions might not be so lucky after all, we just don't have a good enough imagination. If I fantasise about winning the lottery, it doesn't take long before all sorts of worrisome potential consequences occur to me.”

“Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.”

“I live with the fact that while I am playing, I am going to give everything I have, and I will live with those consequences.”