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1. "...she bid me to look out on the lawn at the leper girls who were running on lame feet, playing croquet with crippled hands."There is beauty," she said, "in the least beautiful of things."
Author: Alan Brennert
2. "A Grand Design we couldn't see because we were part of it. A Grand Design we only got occasional, fleeting glimpses of. A Grand Design involving the entire course of history and all of time and space that, for some unfathomable reason, chose to work out its designs with cats and croquet mallets and penwipers, to say nothing of the dog. And a hideous piece of Victorian artwork. And us."
Author: Connie Willis
3. "I say, Billy, what's the use in playing croquet when you're doomed?He says, Frankie, what's the use of not playing croquet when you're doomed?"
Author: Frank McCourt
4. "...I had a momentary vision of Brooklands' entire middle class, its prosperous lawyers, doctors and senior managers, being confined to their own ghetto, with nothing to do all day except groom their ponies and swing their croquet mallets."
Author: J.G. Ballard
5. "It was a universal truth among males that anytime you saw a guy get it in the nuts, you experienced a shot of phantom pain in your own croquet set."
Author: J.R. Ward
6. "Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English."
Author: Jane Kaczmarek
7. "Get me into the game, Izzy," Cameron said when he reached Isabella at the edge of Hart's well-groomed lawn. Pairs of ladies and gentlemen waited beyond, a few gentlemen swinging mallets and rolling shoulders to show off for the ladies.Isabella turned to Cameron in surprise. "We're playing croquet.""Yes, I know what the devil it is. Give me a damned mallet.""But you hate croquet." Isabella continued to blink green eyes at him."I don't hate it today. I want you to pair me with Mrs. Douglas.""Ah." Isabella's surprised look turned to one of interest. "Mrs. Douglas, is it?"
Author: Jennifer Ashley
8. "You're doing it again. Using reason to argue faith. Can't be done. Like playing croquet with a crochet hook. Sounds something like the right tool for the job, but isn't."
Author: K.J. Bishop
9. "Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people."
Author: Lewis Carroll
10. "The hedgehog was engaged in a fight with another hedgehog, which seemed to Alice an excellent opportunity for croqueting one of them with the other: the only difficulty was, that her flamingo was gone across to"
Author: Lewis Carroll
11. "Call it what you like,' said the Cat. 'Do you play croquet with the Queen to-day?' 'I should like it very much,' said Alice, 'but I haven't been invited yet.' 'You'll see me there,' said the Cat, and vanished."
Author: Lewis Carroll
12. "If it turned out Brandon Stark also likes to dress up as Strwberry Shortcake while playing croquet with his miniture pony collection, I totally wouldn't be surprised anymore."
Author: Meg Cabot
13. "I cook croquetas, and I eat jamon. I keep my diet 100% Mediterranean and drink my Rioja. In that sense, I have a piece of Spain in West Hollywood."
Author: Paz Vega
14. "So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor."
Author: Rose Macaulay
15. "It's a universal truth that nothing spoils a postlunch game of croquet like suspecting the other players of murder."
Author: Shannon Hale

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