SKETCHES OF SUMMER 3: －I would really like to know what sort of joker [it was] who was the first to say that man was the king of creation

NEWS 471: － What,... is it really possible!... there'll soon be beef for next to nothing and veal into a bargain!... － So they say, misis Gobinard,.... and they say!..

Los Caprichos: Who would believe it !

The Blue-stockings 5: I say, Bichette... What are you thinking of..

TRIVIAL THINGS 1: Eleven degrees centigrade! what a bad turn it gives you! and they call this a year of mercy!

Conjugal Manners 37: The well of Grenelle. And these rogues of chemists who say that it does some good to bathe children in the well of Grenelle; here's poor Dodophe who's gone greener than an apple; I don't know whether my son's a lizard or a toad!!

It was indeed worth the trouble of having us killed!

NEWS 37: A STUBBORN OLD MAN. －Clerk of the court, would you be kind enough to tell me when they'll punish the individual who, at the place du Havre, put my eye in the condition in which you see it. －But sir, it's unthinkable that you should continue to wear such an eye-patch when we've proven to you that no one was punched in the place du Havre... do you know that the ex-members of the Society of the Tenth of December would have the right to demand compensation for the harm that you're doing to their reputation!

SKETCHES OF SUMMER 15: －Look here, pet..., don't provoke the sea like that..., it might suddenly become malicious and we won't have time to save ourselves!..

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

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

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

Strangers in Paris 4: Some slight purchases: Oh!...the beautiful shawls... would you buy me one, dear?... －What!... why didn't you say straightaway that you wanted everything, and we could have started by simply buying up the whole la Ville de Paris shop!..

NEWS 254: A DEPUTY'S NIGHTMARE. － Oh! my God! what is the matter dear? － I was dreaming that I was invalidated

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

THE FREQUENTERS OF CAFÉS 1: Personally, I'm in the habit of never giving anything to the waiter, it encourages celibacy

PASTORALS 40: －Needless to say, I've got to cross this devil of a small wood to get home... I'm angry at having stayed so late at neighbour Rigolard's so as to make a hundred at piquet... if I'd thought I'd have made only half a hundred

SKETCHES OF WINTER 2: Going to sample what it is convenient to call, even in the month of December, the pleasures of the hunt!..

SKETCHES OF SUMMER 6: What it suits us to call the charms of the countryside

PEOPLE OF THE LAW 24: －What a pity that charming little woman didn't ask me to defend her... how I would have argued that her husband is a rascal!..

ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 12: What's the matter with you, Robert? you seem full of care. －Yes I'm vexed... Those devils of Shareholders have tormented me so much, tormented me so much that I gave them a dividend. －Deuce! a real dividend? －Yes, I gave it to them completely.. －What are you goin to do? －I'm going to try to get it back

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

TRIVIAL THINGS 5: Oh,what the devvvvvil!... lady we'd such a good time they was eighteen on us, they was no men nor women, we was all from the Auvergne what the devvvvvvvvil!!!!!..

TRIVIAL THINGS 5: Oh,what the devvvvvil!... lady we'd such a good time they was eighteen on us, they was no men nor women, we was all from the Auvergne what the devvvvvvvvil!!!!!..

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