TODAY'S PHILANTHROPISTS 17: －Worshipful mayor... in passing through your town we come to you to propose giving a large concert for the benefit of the poor... we will only deduct in advance from the takings the full the expenses of our journey,... which amount to nothing but eight hundred francs

TODAY'S PHILANTHROPISTS 5: －Madam... it is not enough only to have danced for the benefit of those poor Poles... let us be Philanthropists to the very end... let us take supper for their profit!..

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!..

TODAY'S PHILANTHROPISTS 11: －I've already forbidden you to call me master... understrand that all men are brothers... animal!

NEWS 392: － Oh! my poor missis Chaffarou, it's certainly all over with us... there's the comet arriving and the sun going away!..

NEWS 88: POOR MR. ROUHER! A VOICE (from the wings)－Come on! you've got to jump. HIM－But i'm going to sink to the bottom!

NEWS: THE ANXIETIES OF THE VITICULTURIST. －We've just escaped the frost... we've nothing more to fear except the sun, the rain, vine-mildew and the rest!..

New Hell, What Kind of Hell will we go to?, Aichi

TODAY'S PHILANTHROPISTS 6: －Sir, I'm giving towards the Batignolles earthquake... here are two francs... but put down my name and address in your day-book: Rigolard Philanthropic stationer, 345, rue St. Honoré, stocks clocks, plasters by Dantan, Bohemian glass, English riding-sticks, German chemical matches, and generally everything that doesn't relate to his profession!..

THE ALARMISTS AND ALARMED. 7: I think they're beating the call to arms... Adolphe don't go... inthe name of the children we could have had!..

NEWS 179: They wanted to snuff out even the Sun

NEWS 142: THE POLITICAL HIGH-LIVERS: (France.) －Hum!... hum!... that seems to me to be a pretty poor dish!

NEWS 142: THE POLITICAL HIGH-LIVERS: (France.) －Hum!... hum!... that seems to me to be a pretty poor dish!

Album des Charges du Jour: EUNUCHS DISCHARGED BY THE BEY TUNIS.[sic] －What's going to become of us?... here we are[,] dismissed!... －There's nothing for it but to become coachmen in Constantinople!..

The Disasters of War: And Nothing can be done

THE SPECULATORS 1: －I bought this ground at one franc per metre and I'll sell it at 9 francs. －Who to?... －The name's not important as long as I earn 8 francs per metre... it's not too expensive. the ground's well worth 600 francs per metre on the boulevard Montmartre!... －Yes, but this place isn't populated. －What d'you mean, not populated... there are more than twenty thousand rabbits!

Caricaturana 82: Write: Sir, In reply to the letter which you did me the honour of writing, I regret to tell you that the shares of the European Society of Incombustible Boot Polish have been fully subscribed to. However, I have registered your request, and will have the honour of giving you immediate notice in the event of a new issue. I am etc. R.Macaire, Director... Print “withdraw 300,000[francs] and flood France with new shares... －What, we haven't disposed of a single share, we haven't had a single request, we haven't got a sou and you... －Bertrand! You're as thick as a plank... Do what I say and you'll see

PROFILES 5: THE PORTER ON HIS ROUNDS ON NEW YEAR'S DAY: Nothing but 115 francs for my wishes, and I've already done eight floors!!! Dunces of Tenants! Another time I'll give them wishes... wouldn't they like to get it!

We have the same gestures, even though Ayesha was not born from my stomach

ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 6: (Robert) So! my dear director, how goes your business? (Bertrand) Oh, vefry well, very well!! I'm very satisfied... only we don't have a sou, we can't continue. －The deuce!! －But a capitalist should deposit 200000 francs with us, the document's going to be signed this evening or tomorrow... I'm very impatient, I've got the greatest need for a pair of boots

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 26: Yes, Sir, your respectable air encourages me: you see in me a first tenor who has lost his DO, but who still has his wife. With eighteen children, and nothing more! nooo... thing mmmm... ore; lend me fifteen pounds or so! －I've only got a forty franc piece on me! －I'll give it back to you!

JOURNEY TO CHINA 7: CHINESE MARRIAGE. The angler's skill in setting his lines, the hunter's artfulness in taking game, the horse-dealer's tricks to hide the redhibitory defects of his horse, nothing is comparable to the skill, the artfulness, the trick which a mother deploys in order to marry her daughter... the poor Chinese men mistrust the lures, of honey and of glue, to no avail, someone always falls into the maternal snare

After "Where Do We Come From?" from "The Earth of Light"

NEWS 52 : －Look here, kaiserlick[sic]......, shall we soon be done with these gallantries to the women?..