David Low quotes
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“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.”
-- David LowSource : David Low (1956). “Autobiography”, London : M. Joseph
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“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.”
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“Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour.”
-- David LowSource : David Low (1956). “Autobiography”, London : M. Joseph
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“I have never met anyone who wasn't against war. Even Hitler and Mussolini were, according to themselves.”
-- David LowSource : Quoted in N.Y. Times Magazine, 10 Feb. 1946
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“I have learned from experience that, in the bluff and counterbluff of world politics, to draw a hostile war lord as a horrible monster is to play his game. What he doesn't like is being shown as a silly ass.”
-- David Low
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“No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.”
Source : Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël, a Study of Her Life and Times: The First Revolution and the First Empire”
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Source : A.M. Homes (2012). “May We Be Forgiven”, p.108, Granta Books
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“Freedom of belief and worship is the most important guarantee of social peace.”
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