The Blue-stockings 25: The president shouting at the top of her voice: Ladies!ﾉ

The Blue-stockings 12: To think that Arsinoé was not happy to be the sitter for her portrait..

The Blue-stockings 19: Hell and damnation!... Hissed!..

The Blue-stockings 20: Oh woe!... to have dreamed... a husband

The Blue-stockings 26: Oh pleasure of opium, how you enrapture me!..

The Blue-stockings 14: Devilish bawling child, go!..

The Blue-stockings 23: The artist has represented me at the moment when I am writing..

The Blue-stockings 16: Bichette... Come and tie my bowtie!..

The Blue-stockings 31: Follow my argument carefully, Eudoxie..

The Blue-stockings 21: Goodbye my dear Flora... Don’t forget..

The Blue-stockings 5: I say, Bichette... What are you thinking of..

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

The Blue-stockings 18: Oh my idolised Victor... a poetic idea has come to me!..

The Blue-stockings 11: Take that further away... impossible to work..

The Blue-stockings 22: The blue-stocking declaiming her play －Act 6 Scene 1... the theatre shows a tiger asleep in the desert... Rosalba barely drags herself forward, and does so with even greater difficulty because of her five children and her aged father: －Rosalba falls at the foot of a date-palm covered with coconuts, and cries in despair: Oh heaven, when will our torments finish. －The entire audience (in a low voice): ‘and ours, too, when will they finish, oh heaven!’

The Blue-stockings 4: Goodbye, Ophélia!... Don’t forget..

The Blue-stockings 27: It's curious... many ideas come to me... that..

The Blue-stockings 24: Since Virginie has obtained the seventh honourable mention..

Strangers in Paris 7: A slight queue at the door of the Palais de l’Industrie

The Blue-stockings 17: (The pit at the Odéon) － The author!... the author!... the author!... － Gentlemen, your impatience will be satisfied... you wish to know who is the author of this play which has just received such a great, and I should say, such justifiable, success... the author... is meeeeee!

The Blue-stockings 10: So!... They haven't noticed my novel again today! now these journalists occupy themselves each morning with the Lièvres [Hares]... with the Perdreaux [Young Patridges]... with the Bécasses! [Snipes]... and they do not think of me... it is unthinkable!..

PASTORALS 40: －Needless to say, I've got to cross this devil of a small wood to get home... I'm angry at having stayed so late at neighbour Rigolard's so as to make a hundred at piquet... if I'd thought I'd have made only half a hundred

WHEN YOU'RE UNLUCKY 9: I thought better of her than that..

NEWS 387: Mr. Coste, perceiving that by dint of taking his fish out of the water to judge their state of health, they have finished up by being severely ill..

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 93: THE DEVILISH SEDUCERS: －Did you see how that little woman looked at us out of the corner of her eye as she passed... it's only at our age that you can truly please women!..