They stoop like subservient wine waiters,

One-day cricket is an exhibition. Test cricket is an examination.

Those who run cricket in this country, especially at the domestic level, are for the most part a self-serving, pusillanimous and self-important bunch of myopic dinosaurs unable to take any but the shortest-term view of everything.

Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.

Ode to Catawba Wine

The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and strain from the lees of the vat.