British Cartoonist Quotes

David Low

Ralph Steadman

I was in a slightly befuddled state by this time and the potent combination of watery beer and whiskey was bringing on a severe attack of drawing, as always happens when I start seeing unusual faces through a haze of controlled drinking. My body becomes a protective casing and lets me observe through the two keyholes on the front of my head.

A household where a total unawareness of the world of ideas not only existed but was regarded as a matter for congratulation.

Osbert Lancaster

I like who I am, and am puzzled to find that not everybody shares this opinion.

Ashleigh Brilliant

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

I don't care for Lady Macbeth in the streetwalking scene.

Edward Linley Sambourne

Wife: Cooking! Cleaning! Why should women do it?
Husband: You're quite right—let's get an au pair girl.

There are self-styled "anarcho-capitalists" (not to be confused with anarchists of any persuasion), who want the state abolished as a regulator of capitalism, and government handed over to capitalists.