Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Osbert Lancaster

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English cartoonist Osbert Lancaster.
Last updated on December 25, 2024.
Osbert Lancaster

Sir Osbert Lancaster, CBE was an English cartoonist, architectural historian, stage designer and author. He was known for his cartoons in the British press, and for his lifelong work to inform the general public about good buildings and architectural heritage.

A household where a total unawareness of the world of ideas not only existed but was regarded as a matter for congratulation.
The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.
Although very few people are actually called upon to live in palaces a very large number are unwilling to admit the fact. — © Osbert Lancaster
Although very few people are actually called upon to live in palaces a very large number are unwilling to admit the fact.
Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.
Architecture may be frozen music, but it melts.
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