Frases de Donald McGill

Donald McGill era artista británico.

✵ 28. enero 1875 – 13. octubre 1962
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Donald McGill: Frases en inglés

“Do you like Kipling?"
"I don't know, you naughty boy, I've never kippled.”

The Guinness Book of World Records 1988 p. 203. http://www.unc.edu/~sstaff/images/kippled.jpg
Holds the record as the world's most successful postcard, with a sale of about 6,000,000.
Several earlier versions of the gag exist dating to the 19th century, according to the Quote Investigator blog. http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/10/02/like-kipling/

“Could you exchange this lucky charm for a baby's feeding-bottle?”

George Orwell "The Art of Donald McGill"

“I want to back the favourite, please. My sweetheart gave me a pound to do it both ways!”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/reports/misc/cartoon_libel08.shtml.

“Can't see my little Willy.”

Arthur Calder-Marshall Wish You Were Here: The Art of Donald McGill (1966) p. 44.
The drawing shows a small child on a beach, hidden under the bulging stomach of his father.

“For Heaven's sake, send help! There's a man trying to get into my room and the door's locked!”

The Independent, September 8, 2006. http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article1372035.ece.

“"'Isaiah' – what a funny name for a teddy bear!"
"Well, you see one eye's 'igher than the other."”

Exhibited as part of the Michael Winner collection of McGill designs at the Chris Beetles Gallery, March 14 to April 8, 2006. http://www.chrisbeetles.com/pictures/artists/McGill_Donald/DMG185.htm

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