--- title: "2 Ronald Searle Quotes - Famous Caricaturist (How to be Topp)" description: "Ronald William Fordham Searle was an English artist and satirical cartoonist, comics artist, sculptor, medal designer and illustrator." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b079/author-ronald-searle-110878.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Ronald Searle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b079/author-ronald-searle-110878.jpg) # Ronald Searle (1920–2011) Caricaturist **2** quotes in **15** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Ronald Searle was a caricaturist, best known for *How to be Topp*. ## Quick Facts About Ronald Searle Born March 3, 1920 Died December 30, 2011 Profession Caricaturist Notable works How to be Topp ## About Ronald Searle Ronald William Fordham Searle was an English artist and satirical cartoonist, comics artist, sculptor, medal designer and illustrator. He is perhaps best remembered as the creator of St Trinian's School and for his collaboration with Geoffrey Willans on the Molesworth series. ## Quotes by Ronald Searle > [Mr. Searle became a satirist, he once said, because ‘in the late '30s, things in general and politics in particular were no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-searle/mr-searle-became-a-satirist-he-once-said-because-in-the-late-30s/) [Ronald Searle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-searle/) [Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e67/ronald-searle-110878_art_mr-searle-became-a-satirist-he-once-said_955791.jpg) > [“A St. Trinian’s girl would be sadistic, cunning, dissolute, crooked, sordid, lacking morals of any sort and capable of any excess. She…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-searle/a-st-trinian-s-girl-would-be-sadistic-cunning-dissolute-crooked/) [Ronald Searle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-searle/) [Cunning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cunning/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/72a/ronald-searle-110878_cunning_a-st-trinian-s-girl-would-be-sadistic-cu_3045343.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-searle/#itemlist", "name": "Ronald Searle Quotes", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Mr. Searle became a satirist, he once said, because ‘in the late '30s, things in general and politics in particular were no longer neatly divided into things black and white. On top of this,’ he added, ‘there was the irresistible impulse to draw. 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