croquet quotes

Praise the sports of the land And water, each one The bath by the beach, or the yacht on the sea But of all the sweet pleasures Known under the sun; A good game of Croquet's the sweetest to me.

-Thomas Mayne Reid
  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

It is no game for the soft of sinewand the gentle of spirit. Thehigherand dirtiercroquet-playercanusetheguile of a cobra and the inhumanity of a boa constrictor.

- Alexander Humphreys Woollcott
Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).