Infelicitious Queries. George du Maurier Punch (8 March 1890): 114. Click on image to enlarge it.
He.— “By the bye, do you remember that occasion when I made such an awful Ass of myself?”
She.— “Which?”
George du Maurier's Subjects: Unlucky Speeches, Ill-Considered Utterances, and Things One Could Wish to Have Expressed Otherwise
- "Those Infelicitious Speeches"
- "Taking One Too Much at One's Word"
- "Neighbourly Compliments"
- "Unlucky Speeches"
- "An Unappreciated Compliment"
- "Things One Could Wish to Have Expressed Otherwise"
- "Things One Would Have Expressed Differently"
- "Things One Would Have Expressed Differently" (2)
- "Things One Would Have Expressed Differently" (4)
- "Ill-Considered Utterances"
- "An Equivocal Compliment"
- "Too Kind by Half"
- "An Infelicitious Speech"
- "Speeches One Has to Live Down"
- "Too Considerate"
- "Consolation"
Scanned image and text by George P. Landow [You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the person who scanned the image and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite the Victorian Web in a print one.]
Bibliography
Punch. Hathi Trust Digital Library online version of a copy in the Harvard University Library. Web. 4 May 2020.
Created 1 July 2001
Last modified 5 May 2020