“The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.”
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Irish playwright 1856–1950Related quotes

Estranha gente, para quem é fora de dúvida que ninguém pode ser moral sem ler a Bíblia, ser forte sem jogar o críquete e ser gentleman sem ser inglês! E é isto que os torna detestados. Nunca se fundem, nunca se desinglesam.
"Os Ingleses no Egipto"; "The English in Egypt" pp. 159-60.
Cartas de Inglaterra (1879–82)
“Cricket is the most senior, widespread and deeply rooted of English games.”
Quoted in The Guardian Book of Cricket (1986).

Said in relation to the proposal to ban firearms in the UK following the Dunblane shooting, as quoted in "48 of Prince Philip's greatest gaffes and funny moments" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/04/48-prince-philips-greatest-gaffes-funny-moments/, The Telegraph (2 August 2017)
1990s

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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook A (1765-1770)

“If I return some people's greetings, I do so only to give them their greeting back.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)