Vintage Speech Lover Prints

Mr Micawber Delivers some Valedictory Remarks

Cocktails on the verandah.

Inclusive speech

What's normal?

Military Medals

Pashminas are sooo noughties!

Early Piety

'No, I'm not the sommelier; in fact, I don't even work here - I've just always wanted to try this wine.'

"Just a brief moment, Linda, to thank you for my delicious meals. And if you need me by your side... just whistle." "What fresh hell is this?"

'I look forward to a bigger and bolder vision in my 2nd term.'

Illustration from an Unpublished Novel

'A Ball at the Mansion House'

Changing Minds

Abandoning the computer for a typewriter.

'Jerry's 'old school'.'

Passed over at the Inaugural Poetry Audition

An old-time engineer enters the cockpit on a flight.

"This is not the first time I have been asked to speak."

"Diamonds are so three billion years ago..."

"I believe I can create a great presentation if I can only tap into my cognitive dissonance."

"I liked the fee-fi-fo-fum part, but I found the rest of his speech racist and repellent."

"My master's vowel hyperarticulation is wearing a bit thin..."

"Are you looking to accentuate or camouflage?"

MLK

'Well ladies and gentlemen, I'm sure my little talk has made you all think'

"Before texting we had to write letters by hand, and before emojis we honestly just bottled up our emotions."

'This is a wind-up, isn't it?'

"Of course, I'm perfectly willing to pay my income tax, but I stayed home all day on the fifteenth, and nobody came."

'I know I complimented you on that outfit last time you wore it, but that was in 1980.'

'The village's oldest inhabitant? We did have one, but he died.'

'No, you can't just watch the end of Bargainhunt!'

Opening the Barrel