Donald McGill

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

"In the past the mood of the comic postcard could enter into the central stream of literature, and jokes barely different from McGills could casually be uttered between the murders in Shakespeares 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."

"I like seeing experienced girls home." "But Im not experienced!" "Youre not home yet!"

"She didnt ask me to the christening, so Im not going to the wedding."

"Ive been struggling for years to get a fur coat. How did you get yours?" "I left off struggling."

"Isaiah – what a funny name for a teddy bear!" "Well, you see one eyes igher than the other."