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!..

Musicians of Paris 6: If you knew how pretty you were! pretened to play.－Say nothing do.－ You do not love me si－And I shall always be! la mi

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 29: －What's become of you then [,] Mister Lebrun?... －I've become a runaway... to the Stock-Exchange!..

PARISIANS TYPES 6: Well there you are, what've you got there? －Don't talk to me about it; we've got people to stay and I've just done my shopping

PARISIANS TYPES 1: Well, clever! how do you find him!... －Yes.yes...but in the end... －Yes...yes...yes!..

PARISIANS TYPES 11: You argue like a suger cane! －And you, like a suger beet!

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

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!..

NEWS 94: If the workers fight among themselves, how do you expect the building to be reconstructed

ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 18: The way in which you go on one can clearly see that money means nothing to you! if I left you to your own devices, my money would soon be squandered... －Bah! father, it's not for yourself that you accumulate money... －Do you think perhaps it is for you, no, no, with the kind of life you lead I will live longer than you... －My dear father, you only have unpleasant things to say to me..

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 167: Do you think perhaps it's a spectator... well not even that!... it's the director!!!

NEWS 167: Do you think perhaps it's a spectator... well not even that!... it's the director!!!

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 61: －What were you thinking of, Mr. Piquepruneman, to have made me a frock-coat as much [in the style] of a landlord as that... you well know that I live in the same street as citizen Proudhon!..

(PARISIANS TYPES 27): Oh! [it's] absolutely as if you were there, the big woman's taking off her corset, the little one's hunting for a flea

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

Childish Acts 6: －Well, what about my glass... if I don't have my glass I'll tell Mummy that you've been drinking again with that lanky fellow whom she told you not to go about with!..

NEWS 1: I didn’t tell you to go and make yourself into... sugar! I told you to go and cook yourself!

Même quand tu ne bande pas

NEWS 37: A STUBBORN OLD MAN. －Clerk of the court, would you be kind enough to tell me when they'll punish the individual who, at the place du Havre, put my eye in the condition in which you see it. －But sir, it's unthinkable that you should continue to wear such an eye-patch when we've proven to you that no one was punched in the place du Havre... do you know that the ex-members of the Society of the Tenth of December would have the right to demand compensation for the harm that you're doing to their reputation!

PARISIANS TYPES 10: OH WELL! TOO BAD!...WE'LL PLEAD... I LIKE THAT BETTER!!..

PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE ASSEMBLY 16: Below the upper vignette: Bineau the Savage making his entry as minister; Below the lower vignette: －Well, so it's no cleverer than that to talk from the tribune? －Yes, but you, Pierre, you're listening to me too politely, you should say something stupid from time to time, [because] without that there's no longer any illusion, we're not in a meeting any more!

PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE ASSEMBLY 16: Below the upper vignette: Bineau the Savage making his entry as minister; Below the lower vignette: －Well, so it's no cleverer than that to talk from the tribune? －Yes, but you, Pierre, you're listening to me too politely, you should say something stupid from time to time, [because] without that there's no longer any illusion, we're not in a meeting any more!

[THESE GOOD PARISIANS] 1: － Oh! Théophile..., I'm learing some fine things about you..., according to Mr. Desbarolles' book, I see you have on your palm the debauchery line!... － Oh!... bah..

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!..