David Low Quotes

David Low shares satirical, cynical takes on war, politics and independence.

10 quotes

1. Gad, sir, Lord Beaverbrook is right! A conference should be held at once for the U. S. A. to pay back the money Europe owes her.

2. 'The scum of the earth, I believe?' 'The bloody assassin of the workers, I presume?'

3. Very well, alone.

4. Gad, sir, Churchill is right. The Govt. has evidently made an irrevocable decision to be guided by circumstances with a firm hand.

5. I have never met anyone who wasn't against war. Even Hitler and Mussolini were, according to themselves.

6. It may well be, that the future historian, asked to point to the most characteristic expression of the English temper in the period between the two wars will reply without hesitation, 'Colonel Blimp'.

7. Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour.

8. Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.

9. Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.

10. Here lies a nuisance dedicated to sanity.