I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures…

Oscar Wilde
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I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures. ✨ His reason for not playing cricket. Quoted in Bloomsbury Thematic Dictionary of Quotations (1988)
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I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures. ✨ His reason for not playing cricket. Quoted in Bloomsbury Thematic Dictionary of Quotations (1988)

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