NEWS 62: I am a bird, see my wings. I am a mouse, long live the rats.(La-Fontaine.)

NEWS 55: AN EFFECT OF THE DEMOLITION WORKS IN PARIS. Certainly here's where I live... and I can't even recover my wife!

NEWS 106: － Miss prud'homme [sic], I have learnt that the English are going to come again to contend for the Paris grand prix, my patriotism makes it a duty for me to prepare for the struggle

NEWS 37: The closer I get to the sun, the more I shiver... surely that star doesn't warrant the reputation for heat that it's been given... I see that my horse misses the ground!

NEWS 24: A RECONCILIATION (A scene from high comedy): －I embrace you, but still hold a grudge against you! － I press you to my heart, but you’ll pay for it!

NEWS 24: A RECONCILIATION (A scene from high comedy): －I embrace you, but still hold a grudge against you! － I press you to my heart, but you’ll pay for it!

NEWS 87: －Well now! but we can't see anything in your magic lantern? －Have a little patience! the curtain hasn't yet risen

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..

THE DOERS OF BUSINESS 1: －I'm launching my great concern －the moment has come... I'll cerrtainly set up a company to exploit my idea..., the manufacture of Artificial Prunes... a capital of three million! －I see what you're driving at, you're going to ask me for the stones!

FISH-CULTURE 6: － Do you see my two trout? － No... not very well. － There... on the left... next to my salmon － That's odd... I cam't even make out the salmon,... it's perhaps owing to the fact that this opera-glass is poor

NEWS 55: － My boy, the apparition of a comet always coincides with some memorable event... this one predicted for us your triumphs at Galuchet's boarding-school!..

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!..

NEWS 45: ABDUCTION OF A GIRL-SPIRIT OF THE AIR. － Come, come, Mr. Godard, I'm frozen, let me into the gondola... － That's impossible, since we'll be seen by Paris... － But I've got a frightful head-cold!... － All I can promise is to wipe your nose, as soon as we get into a cloud!..

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 71: A STEEPLE-CHASE WINNER: －So you confirm that I came in first... －My dear chap you were magnificent... everybody envies your lot!..

THE EATERS OF HORSEFLESH 13: － You see... I've just done my shopping myself!... I invite you to dine tomorrow... one can't say that its a first-class horse, but the broth from it can only be better!..

NEWS 457: Master, you owe me five sous more for your luggage..., and, what's more, I'm polite. because I could count your wife as a second bundle..

NEWS 184: AN UNLUCKY FIGHTER: See, here, my friend Léon, gulp this down for me... it's Argenteuil balsam...it's worked every time one of my men has been unwise enough to separate from my gang and has got a frightful beating up!...another time, don't go out alone against the majority!..

NEWS 194: To a known air: －Oh! Richard, oh! my king, the universe abandons you, On the earth there is thus only you interested in your person

ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 15: A groundless quarrel. －..Yes, Sir, do me the pleasure of giving that jovial fellow a brief respite... understood that the aforesaid gentleman denies himself the printing of my newspaper, and by this fact ruins my undertaking; to see oneself condemned to 67,000 f[rancs] of losses and interest... －But on what is his refusal grounded? －Oh, on a foolishness.... a trifle... on what I should pay him in cash, for which I'm 21 months in arrears... it's a poor pretext, a groundless quarrel

NEWS 197: HOLDERS OF SHARES IN CALIFORNIA. －Yesterday I poured in five thousand francs as the price of a thousand shares in the Californian Yellow Water-Lily Company... we've the cultivation of the entire left bank of the Sacramento... I think I've done good business... and the owner is as convinced as I am... －I prefer the Golden Carrot Company, I've put all the money I have in it

SKETCHES OF THE TEATRE BY DAUMIER 1: － Oh! my dear sir, you have given me a very pleasant evening, you have reminded me of Talma － Have I really reminded you of Talma? － Yes, particularly bu the shape of your nose

Conjugal Manners 49: A memory of youth: －－ Here, you see our initials still haven't worn out...Oh, Sophie, it's here that I won your heart. －－ Be quiet, Théophile... what if someone were to hear us!

NEWS 7: － It seems I spy over there a little dog which isn't muzzled!... － Fear nothing, Mr. Robichon; if it approaches, I'll throw my sniff-box in its eyes!

NEWS 35: AN AERIAL [SHORT] EXCURSION TRAIN. The aeronaut. － Well! gentlemen, what do you say to this spectacle? A citizen. － I say that I'm very angry at having paid three hundred francs for my place!..

MISADVENTURES AND DISAPPOINTMENT OF MR.GOGO 2: My son, you are wrong to risk your money in shares, the Stock Exchange is a den of swindlers, bitumen is a beastliness, the mines are precipices,... a wise man should enjoy his fortune quietly... －It's true, mother, I'm wrong, but I need some thousands of francs, and I've come to ask you... －My God!... I'd give it with pleasure... but ... frankly!... the card game ruined me this winter..