"Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right."
"Here was my first lesson on the resolutely maintained untidiness and ill-health of the English upper orders. In baggy evening dress and old before their time, they displayed gapped and tangled teeth in loosely open mouths. Gently shedding dandruff, they lurched across the lawn. When they stood at the bar they looked like Lee Trevino Putting."
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Source: Clive James (2013). “The Complete Unreliable Memoirs”, p.256, Pan Macmillan
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