TENANTS AND LANDLORDS 12: Robber of a landlord... who doesn't want to have repairs done for me except in fine weather!..

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 51: －It doesn't surprise me that women always have a taste for military uniform! －

TENANTS AND LANDLORDS 22: Is the account exact?... now you're going to ask me if I can give you a receipt... under the pretext that if one's rich one should always give something!..

TENANTS AND LANDLORDS 18: How the Spanish balcony is included in Paris

TENANTS AND LANDLORDS 30: －Look how they've ruined my walls with their chimney flues... tenants shouldn't be allowed to light fires!..

Parisian Sketches 11: Oh! Thank you for what you have done..

Parisian Sketches 11: Oh! Thank you for what you have done..

TENANTS AND LANDLORDS 15: A FURTIVE HOUSE-MOVING. －Take no notice... it's our friend Cabassol who's feeling uncomfortable, and whom we're taking home!..

Affectation 6: Damn boots!... that'll teach me to want to make my feet small!!..

TENANTS AND LANDLORDS 6: Inconvenient to visit without caution a mezzanine room where the ceiling is a little too low

ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 11: Again my creditors, always my creditors... it's em... thing!... What do those animals want form me?... would that they'd leave me in peace!... Me, do I ask anything of them

NEWS 62: －Got to admit that it's very odd that the grapes have caught the potatoes' disease!

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

TENANTS AND LANDLOADS 5: －Why, madam..., I am unwise enough to absent myself from my property for some months and this is the state in which I find you... I give you twenty four hours' notice to leave... I don't even know that I don't have the right to claim damages from your husband!..

THE UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION 19: － say, husband, is this here, the buffet?... it looks jolly appetising to me, I'll certainly have somefink!..

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 36: －I wanna drink!... －But I've told you I'm a grocer!... －Yer a grocer... well! grocers have everything... give me a drink!... or else yer not a grocer!

SKETCHES OF EXPRESSIONS 14: My dear fellow, may I have the pleasure of your lending me 15 frcs.[francs].－Willingly, but I've only got ten. －Deuce!...deuce!... give them to me anyway, you can owe me five

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 54: －Well, there's my wife going off... high speed... twelve leagues an hour... what a fine invention steam is!..

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 35: It's nevertheless there that I carved my love monogram... well[,] how it's risen... personally, I've got much smaller since!..

NEWS 48: SQUINTING: To be sure, I didn't recognise you! －Oh! that's because I've been operated on, I don't squint any more, that changes me completely don't you think? －Oh! completely, because before I think you squinted inwards...

NEWS 257: － Léocadie, from on high 40 and three-quarter centuries centuries gaze upon us. － Oh! my goodness! and me, I haven't done my toilette!..

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 70 : －Françoise, your cousin the fireman has come. －No, sir! －Well the broth tells me he has!..

JOURNEY TO CHINA 4: THE SEAFARERS' HOTEL. He who says hotel-keeper －in China－ and above all in a seaport, says patent thief... if you bring to his notice that he counts dinners that you have not ordered －errands that you have not had [him] make －waiters who have not served you －expenses for transporting luggage for which you have paid, he replies graciously: Suh, we always count that, always... that is the Chinese habit!... Editer's note: This habit also exists in certain French sea ports

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 66 : －I say, old chap, all the men who pass by seem to me to be turning round... so is this the politicians' quarter here?..

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..