THE DOERS OF BUSINESS 1: －I'm launching my great concern －the moment has come... I'll cerrtainly set up a company to exploit my idea..., the manufacture of Artificial Prunes... a capital of three million! －I see what you're driving at, you're going to ask me for the stones!

LIFE'S DIFFICULT MOMENTS 3 : － For the seventh time will you give me my seat?... if not... － If not what?... － If not, I'll be obliged to go away, which would vex me greatly!

NEWS 118: ADMINISTERING SELF-DISCIPLINE. －It's through my fault, through my fault, through my very great fault!..

TODAY'S PHILANTHROPISTS 25: －I'll never again in my life collect for the poor!... from the moment when I got seventeen francs less than Mrs Ramachard!..

MISADVENTURES AND DISAPPOINTMENT OF MR.GOGO 4: But my dear Gogo, you're joking, how can you leave in your business the three thousand francs my daughter brings you, and the two hundred thousand francs for which you are indebted to her?... do you consider that? to expose the fortune of my child to the risks of commerce!... and if you don't succeed,... if you die, my daughter will then be ruined?... not so, not so, if you please! you're going to marry according to dowry regulations, to put into a good mortgage,... Devil take it! I should foresee a separation, today you're a friend, tomorrow you're not, you see it all the time

MISADVENTURES AND DISAPPOINTMENT OF MR.GOGO 4: But my dear Gogo, you're joking, how can you leave in your business the three thousand francs my daughter brings you, and the two hundred thousand francs for which you are indebted to her?... do you consider that? to expose the fortune of my child to the risks of commerce!... and if you don't succeed,... if you die, my daughter will then be ruined?... not so, not so, if you please! you're going to marry according to dowry regulations, to put into a good mortgage,... Devil take it! I should foresee a separation, today you're a friend, tomorrow you're not, you see it all the time

NEWS 25: － Yes, mister Rifolet, they say that the Cossacks appear to be marching to Constantinople only the better to fool us.. in reality, they're on the way to Paris... personally, I've taken all my precautions, I've already carefully hidden all my packets of candles

Strangers in Paris 3: What is called dining in a restaurant: －Waiter!...I've been in your establishment for an hour and a quarter without having a chair...and you've still only given the tooth-picks to my wife who's dying of hunger... you'll make me lose my normal posture, and I'll end up with my feet in the dish... do you understand, waiter! －There now, Sir... there there now, there there!!!

Conjugal Manners 38: ﾐﾐ Oh! You think your wife doesn't look after you well enough, you rogue; when you spend everything, scoundrel!...Well, I'll make myself kiss-curls, rascal!... and I'll buy bonnets... and I'll make you eat corks, rascal... ﾐﾐ My angel, I'm wrong, you are a good housewife...but you're breaking everything

Double Faces 1: The Uncle-The Nephew: [On the left of the page, vertically]: (The Nephew, aloud) I've been given a little too much, that's bad －(The Uncle, aside) I'll inherit from my nephew, how strange! [On the right of the page,vertically]: (The Uncle, aloud) I'm not well, my friend. －(The Nephew, aside)Things are going well, I'm going to inherit from him

Strangers in Paris 2: The indispensable visit to the tailor of the Palais Royal

IN CHINA 18: －They're going to be truly caught, those Europeans!... they've got cannons which are terrible, because they're grooved, [but] I, I've had the excellent idea of making all my soldiers striped!..

Parliamentary Scenes 1: The electoral visit Until tomorrow, dear Mr.Filochard...besides, if I am not elected I will have as my consolation the fact that my candidature has brought me the pleasure of making your acquaintance!...－ Oh,Sir!...Oh,Sir!..

NEWS 51: －Are you going to open the cage door [?] －Upon my word... I'm going to repaint it

PARISIAN SKETCHES 33: － How late you are arriving at the Stock-Exchange... I'll warrant you've had a windfall?... scoundrel!... － What do you expect!... I'll settle down..., when I get old!..

NEWS 83: －Well, look here..., you're dressed as an Austrian to do the cooking,aren't you!... －Why, of course... the short white jacket, that's always been the uniform of the cook's boy!..

TRAGIC PHYSIOGNOMIES 6: ANDROMACHE “I have seen the days of my whole family cut short” “And my husband covered with blood dragged through the dust!”

[THE EATERS OF HORSEFLESH 10]: 1st SCHOLAR: － I'm beginning to be tired of horse-meat... they haven't yet thought of eating dog... what if we try it?... 2nd SCHOLAR: － Why, well!... it's an idea, but let's talk more quietly so he has no suspicions

TENANTS AND LANDLOADS 7: －It seems to me that your house should make good earnings... －I really think so... I've made two BASEMENTS... and if by chance one of these lodging falls vacant, I'll grow mushrooms there

PARISIANS TYPES 30: －My God! Missus Bombec, what hit you? －Don't mention it,dear lady, the horror! the world's become so ferocious that I'd rather be the gatekeeper at the zoo. You know that Bezuchet on the fifth floor who tells everyone that her not-so great daughter, whose filling out nicely round the waist, has become Whatdropical. Me, I just said: oh yeh! －And that's the creature that... －by Jove, flew into my face

The Blue-stockings 3: Goodbye, my dear, I am going to my editors’..

NEWS 269: － Oh! Good Lord, my dear fellow, what a state you're in. － Hush! it's dodge I've devised for not giving New Year's presents

SKETCHES OF SUMMER 40: －Sir, would you be kind enough to tell me when you'ld like to pay me back the five hundred francs you've been owing me for a long time... －My dear man, you're unreasonable to make such a request of me, you clearly see that I have nothing on me at this very moment..

PARISIANS TYPES 29: Discomfort in talking to people who have a mania for putting thier story into action. －Yes dear Sir, do you think that the rrrrascal was allowed to laugh in my face. You know I won't stand for that. So, I punched him... there, like that, do you see, and I shook you... there, like that... vigorously

ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 8: Dramatic farce. Steady on! －Steady on!... don't raise the curtain, I'm not performing... －(The director, hastening, frightened) You're joking, my dear Macaire, you're joking, aren't you? －Not at all, not at all... I won't act... －You won’t play a similar trick at the theatre, on the author, on your poor comrades... －Brrrrt! you don't keep to your engagements, [so] I break mine, give me the forfeit... －I don't keep to my engagements!! －No, you should pay me ready cash, and you owe me... －What ? －You owe me 75 centimes