MONOMANIACS 1: THE BEASTOPHILE: The supreme happiness of the Beastophile is to make in his home a small menagerie in the bosom of which he spends his life. One can truly apply to him the proverb: “Tell me whom you associate with, [and] I’ll tell you who you are.”

MONOMANIACS 4: THE AMATEUR GUITARIST: Defying the immense yawn / Wich he elicits by singing his verses / He will sing a ballad / About the remnants of the universe..

Caricaturana 80: Robert Macaire shareholder: But Mr.Macaire, when I distributed these dividends, you knew that they were taken on the capital? －What does it matter! you didn't have the right to distribute them, you should refund them to us. －Refund them to you!!! but you accepted them, it's up to you to refund them! －You didn't have the right to distribute them to us, that's my opinion and I'm sticking to it, you should pay them back to us, that's my opinion and I'm sticking to it

Family Proverbs 2: Oh! Monster, you allow yourself to tell me that I'm an old melon, and that my hair is a wig: spare the rod and spoil the child!..

NEWS 118: The only costume truly appropriate to this person who was wrongly qualified for the title of Burgrave

GROTESQUE SCENES 5: The barbar thinks of his creditors while sharpening his razor. The stupefying practice before this face [makes its owner] begin to feel a stomach ache!..

Women Socialists 7: Oh! You are my husband, oh! you are the master... well, I have the right to bundle you out of your home... Jeanne Derouin proved that to me yesterday evening!... go and explain yourself to her!..

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!..

NEWS 110: － Take you to the Madeleine, what nonsense! I'm going to take you to the Zoo, I'm invited for dinner near there

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..

MONOMANIACS 7: THE HYPOCHONDRIAC: This class of citizens is the providence of medicine, the blessing of pharmacy, it is the Nymph Egeria who has inspired white mustard, Paraguay-Roux, the Regnault pâte, the Clyso-bolus and generally all the inventions destined to comfort non-suffering humanity. The hypochondriac gives himself by turns pleurisy, consumption Etc. Etc. He varies his illness in order to vary his pleasures and each day he exclaims, on feeling his pulse, “I truly must have an iron constitution to be able to resist all these illnesses.”

You see, Rouget, being a soldier flatters you..

NEWS 386: Mr. Babinet deciding to go and extinguish the sum himself, in order not to give the lie to his prediction

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

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!..

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT [second series]: (The manservant) －Sir would do well to wear his old dress coat (Aside) I need to wear the new one to go to the door-keeper's evening party

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!..

MONOMANIACS 5: THE REGULATOR: The word regulator normally applying to a type of machine, may wall also be applied to the individual above. One finds in Paris, said to be the most spiritual town in the most spiritual country in the Universe, several dozen particular men whose sole intellectual occupation is to regulate, each day, their watch on the shot of midday from the canon of the Royal Palace. Here, gunpowder makes those happy who will never set the world on fire

PASTORALS 22: －I tell you you've moved the boundary stone and you've moved it forward on to my field!... And I'm telling you I haven't... and I'll maintain in front of all the courts that it's due to my father, and even my grandfather, that my boundary's where it is!... Ah! but!..

NEWS 58: Mimi Véron finally believes to have found the true means of pulverising his enemy

NEWS 179: The soothsayers of diplomacy not daring to broach the Prussian-bird in order to know what to believe

MONOMANIACS 1: THE BEASTOPHILE: The supreme happiness of the Beastophile is to make in his home a small menagerie in the bosom of which he spends his life. One can truly apply to him the proverb: “Tell me whom you associate with, [and] I’ll tell you who you are.”

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