Osbert Lancaster

“High-brow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.”

“It is the function of the artist to provide what life does not.”

“A gentleman is a man who can disagree without being disagreeable.”

“A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who as a group can meet and decide that nothing can be done.”

“The first duty of a government is to be dull.”

“Like all great artists, he is a man of profound convictions, which he is always prepared to change.”

“Economists are people who are too clever for their own good, and who employ language that is deliberately obscure.”

“The English are predisposed to pride themselves on their plain-speaking, which is a curious delusion, because in fact they are the most reticent and evasive people in the world.”

“For a people who are famously shy and reserved, the English seem to possess a disproportionate number of buildings that scream for attention.”