Cricket remains for me the game of games, the sanspareil, the great metaphor, the best marriage ever devisedof mind and body† For meit remainstheProust of pastimes, the subtlest and most poetic, the most past- and-present; whose beauty can lie equally in days, in a whole, or in one tiny phrase, a blinding split second.

-Fowles,John Robert
Quick Singles,'Vain Memories'. Quoted in Helen Exley Cricket Quotations (1992).

L'art pour l'art est un vain mot. L'art pour le vrai, l'art pour le beau et le bon, voila'   la religion que je cherche. Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of the true, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I search for.

-Samuelson, Sir Sydney
  Letter to Alexandre Saint-Jean.

Long life to thy fame and peace to thy soul, Rob Burns! When I want to express a sentiment which I feel strongly, I find the phrase in Shakespeareöor thee. The blockheads talk of my being like Shakespeareönot fit to tie his brogues.

-Scott, Sir Walter
  Journal,11 Dec.