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Donald McGill
11 quotes
“Can't see my little Willy.”
Donald McGill (1875–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Arthur Calder-Marshall Wish You Were Here: The Art of Donald McGill (1966) p. 44.
“Do you like Kipling?" "I don't know, you naughty boy, I've never kippled.”
Donald McGill (1875–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Guinness Book of World Records 1988 p. 203.
“For Heaven's sake, send help! There's a man trying to get into my room and the door's locked!”
Donald McGill (1875–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Independent, September 8, 2006. .
“I want to back the favourite, please. My sweetheart gave me a pound to do it both ways!”
Donald McGill (1875–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'Isaiah' – what a funny name for a teddy bear!" "Well, you see one eye's 'igher than the other.”
Donald McGill (1875–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Exhibited as part of the Michael Winner collection of McGill designs at the Chris Beetles Gallery, March 14 to April 8, 2006.
“Could you exchange this lucky charm for a baby's feeding-bottle?”
Donald McGill (1875–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I like seeing experienced girls home." "But I'm not experienced!" "You're not home yet!”
Donald McGill (1875–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I've been struggling for years to get a fur coat. How did you get yours?" "I left off struggling.”
Donald McGill (1875–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Judge: "You are prevaricating, sir. Did you or did you not sleep with this woman?" Co-respondent: "Not a wink, my lord!”
Donald McGill (1875–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She didn't ask me to the christening, so I'm not going to the wedding.”
Donald McGill (1875–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the past the mood of the comic postcard could enter into the central stream of literature, and jokes barely different from McGill's could casually be uttered between the murders in Shakespeare's tragedies. That is no longer possible, and a whole category of humour, integral to our literature till 1800 or thereabouts, has dwindled down to these ill-drawn postcards, leading a barely legal existence in cheap stationers' windows. The corner of the human heart that they speak for might easily manifest itself in worse forms, and I for one should be sorry to see them vanish.”
Donald McGill (1875–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: George Orwell "The Art of Donald McGill", in Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters (1984) Vol. 2, pp. 194-5.