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!..

Conjugal Manners 34: I should have bet on it ... instead of taking him to see Séraphin, you take him to play ... It's already bad enough for grown-ups; poor little dear! ... －－ Don't worry, Madam, that's the way children amuse themselves!

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

SKETCHES OF EXPRESSIONS 6: My dear man, I congratulate you, your picture has a repturous effect!! －Yes, I find that myself, too

Conjugal Manners 44: Inconvenient to dream aloud: I dreamed... I called Victor! You lied to me, you old gherkin, I couldn't call Victor, because you'd named him Boniface!

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!..

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

SKETCHES OF SUMMER 7: －Mister Prudhomme..., I'm drowning!... －Very well!... madam, I am going to collect... －My person..., oh! thank you... －No, madam..., not being able to swim at all, I am going to collect your last will and testament... I can do no more!..

Conjugal Manners 38: ﾐﾐ Oh! You think your wife doesn't look after you well enough, you rogue; when you spend everything, scoundrel!...Well, I'll make myself kiss-curls, rascal!... and I'll buy bonnets... and I'll make you eat corks, rascal... ﾐﾐ My angel, I'm wrong, you are a good housewife...but you're breaking everything

TRIVIAL THINGS 6: －Is it to you or to the Gentleman who's your brother that I have the honour of speaking? －It is to my brother, Sir

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

PARISIAN IN 1848. 1: －Well... I didn't recognise you... what moustaches!... －It's necessary... I've been made a corporal..

Affectation 2: I said to myself: do they think we're from the rue des Lombards?... There's a little air about you which is not that of a confectioner at all

TODAY'S PHILANTHROPISTS 15: －Come closer, friends, do not be ashamed... you see that it is only I myself!... you are five hundred... good... today I am going to distribute these twenty three bunches of faggots and this pot-full of broth, broth in which each week I pour the best part of my fortune!..

TODAY'S PHILANTHROPISTS 15: －Come closer, friends, do not be ashamed... you see that it is only I myself!... you are five hundred... good... today I am going to distribute these twenty three bunches of faggots and this pot-full of broth, broth in which each week I pour the best part of my fortune!..

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!..

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

TRAGIC PHYSIOGNOMIES 10: OEDIPUS －In piercing him, I myself felt in my soul, / All victorious as I was... you tremble, madam!

NAUTICAL IMPRESSIONS. NAUTICAL THRILLS: Mr. PRUDHOMME. －What..., impudent waves!... do you indeed not know whom you are carrying at this moment, since you are so bold towards me?... understand that, like Xerxes, I am able to have you lashed!... Mrs. PRUDHOMME (Trembling all over) －Oh!... my dear... I beg you!... don't be impertinent to it, you'll put it in a rage and it's capable of swallowing us up!..

Childish Acts 1: I don't want to get into so much water... there'll be a lot of big fish in there

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 10: THE FIRST BEARD: You really want to be able to shave your beard too, don't you, brat... for that wait until you're fifteen like me!..

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 27: COUNTRY ACTORS: －Yes,my dear fellow,yes the barbarians hissed at me in Cinna;and what's more you've seen me in Cinna! －Yes, I flatter myself that I've seen you, but don't you see that the provincials are hard up; open at the Français, go and find Mr.J.J.,get yourself looked after, ask for one hundred thousand francs per year and they'll applaud you...but you want success with 1500F[rancs] salaries and at Beauvais...greenhorn!

Papas 22: If you don't come to grammar school quicker than this..

THE ALARMISTS AND ALARMED. 1: －Oh my god! they 've set fire to the neighbour's house!... don't look, Théodore, it'll hurt you too much!... －Why no... it's he who 's just lit up his window with three Chinese lanterns!..