From your humble little squirts / Receive, on your birthday, / Two types of bouquet / For the opening of which prepare yourself. / They will please you, because the French people / Alone have met all the expenses

Friends 7: It is because he is your friend..

NEWS 457: Master, you owe me five sous more for your luggage..., and, what's more, I'm polite. because I could count your wife as a second bundle..

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 63: THE NEIGHBOURS BEFORE THE JUSTICE OF THE PEACE: Well, I won the case all the same, and you won't be so stuck-up now, Mrs. Pimbèche... because the Justice of the Peace has sentenced you to go back to your house which backs on to mine!..

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 70 : －Françoise, your cousin the fireman has come. －No, sir! －Well the broth tells me he has!..

NEWS 103: LE CONSTITUTIONEL [sic] AND THE WANDERING JEW: Let’s be on our way, old chap, on our way... if even I can’t make you walk it’s certainly because your illness is too constitutional!..

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 71: A STEEPLE-CHASE WINNER: －So you confirm that I came in first... －My dear chap you were magnificent... everybody envies your lot!..

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 55: －I beg your pardon if I didn't spot you straight away... I was unable to recognise you among the other roses in the garden!..

The Good Bourgeois 20: －It appears they have just seen the sea serpent again in the Indian Ocean! －Is that possible, for goodness sake! －Certainly it's possible, for goodness sake, because I told you that it says so in le Constitutionnel! so!..

The Good Bourgeois 20: －It appears they have just seen the sea serpent again in the Indian Ocean! －Is that possible, for goodness sake! －Certainly it's possible, for goodness sake, because I told you that it says so in le Constitutionnel! so!..

NEWS 194: To a known air: －Oh! Richard, oh! my king, the universe abandons you, On the earth there is thus only you interested in your person

NEWS 85: PAINFUL SITUATION OF THE POOR LITTLE KING OF GREECE: The Englishman －Here's a brat that I could only make one mouthful of!... The Russian －Would you please leave this little man alone －you see, I'm defending him!

Women Socialists 2: How beautiful you make yourself, my dear?..

Caricaturana 81: Would you like gold,would you like silver, would you like diamonds, millions [of francs], thousands of million? Come, help yourself... Baoud! Baoud! Baoud-boud-boud!! Here's bitumen, here's steel, lead, gold, paper, here's gallllvanised irrrrron... come on, come on, come on quickly, the law's going to change, you're going to lose it all, hurry up, get them, get your tickets! get your tickets! (Lively, lively with the music) Baoud! Baoud!! baoud-baoud-baoud!! Baoud! Baoud!!

NEWS 24: － What... the paper says that it's rumoured in the Stock-Exchange that the Russians have crossed the Prut!... － Well! Mister Panelet... all the same... because the Russians have begun hostilities that's no reason for you not to finish off shaving

SKETCHES OF THE THEATRE 4: THE-STAGE-MANAGER. － You play kings ineffectually, I'm going to hit you with a fine of not less than one franc fifty, for having missed your entry

PRACTICES OF THE MERCHANTS OF PARIS 6: She does make a fuss, that stuck up woman from the fifth floor, Wearing a hat! and two cups of milk for a sou! Damnation! Ma Capitaine, it's because we've got visitors this morning

THESE GOOD PARISIANS 13: THE PARISIAN － Tell me, worthy fellow, what do you do with all your cows when they become old and no longer give milk?... THE COW-HERD － Look here,... the tomfoolery.. you make beef out of them!..

Parisian Emotions 40: Strolling during the thaw － R...R..rascal! － What! ... what ... but I told you I aimed at Gugusse... that big boy's a nuisance! － I'm going to complain to your pa... pa... parents and to the Po... Po... Police Superintendent! ... then we'll see! － Eh! you want to see, do you!... wait till I block your other window!

NEWS 73: Pastime that should be forbidden to eminent political persons, because it exposes them to compromise the European balance

THE BACHELOR'S DAY 10: 5 O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON: Mr Coquelet you're an unsociable being, d'you understand with your dog; that's twice when I've had 149, he jumps on the table and jumbles it all up. Your dog's and accomplice!... and you're an old cheat

Ancient History 30: Dionysius the tyrant. If he chooses this condition in his sorry fortune, / It is because in the matter of schools / Tyrants always make too much of it, / So that they can fine one [school] in their old age (The late Barthelemy)

TRIVIAL THINGS 6: －Is it to you or to the Gentleman who's your brother that I have the honour of speaking? －It is to my brother, Sir

NEWS 62: －Got to admit that it's very odd that the grapes have caught the potatoes' disease!

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 40: －For three months, your grace has been posing always like that... now the portrait's no longer a likeness... it's no longer that!..