The Spirit Is about to Part

Pro-divorce Women 1: ﾐﾑWomen citizens... it is rumoured that divorce is on the point of being denied to us... let us organise ourselves permanently here and declare that the fatherland is in danger!..

Los Caprichos: It is better to be idle

THE BACHELOR'S DAY 6: － Without doubt Mr. Riflot the right to petition is sacred, but is abused! witness that which you're talking to us about: to tax bachelors for being useless to the population! I'am angry about it for married people; but it has to be said that of [bachelors] there is no one, more than I Coquelet, who has helped the population

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

About the Distance between the Eyes and Nose

NEWS 180: －This is not the only time you will replace us!..

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

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 30: A CUSTOM OF INDIA: My dear friend, I come to make my most sincere compliments to you... our prince is definitely dead, and it is to you, the oldest officer of the palace, that befalls the distinguished honour of accompanying his wives to the pyre, where you will burn with them!..

News 145: Discussion about the constitution

Pro-divorce Women 3: Husbands are merely a vain people, think [about that]!..

MONOMANIACS 3: THE EXPERT: There are Experts and Experts, as there are Uncouth Peolple and Uncouth People. Firtly [there is] the Expert who knows (this is the rarest type); then the Expert who knows nothing, or knows stupid and useless things, that is to say, less than nothing. The Expert of these different categories passes for a profound, serious man; he is in a very good position, and makes a reputation in the world, like all who are hollow. He passes his days full of pleasures and free from failings, except that he is subject to the Cross of Honoour and the Academy

MONOMANIACS 3: THE EXPERT: There are Experts and Experts, as there are Uncouth Peolple and Uncouth People. Firtly [there is] the Expert who knows (this is the rarest type); then the Expert who knows nothing, or knows stupid and useless things, that is to say, less than nothing. The Expert of these different categories passes for a profound, serious man; he is in a very good position, and makes a reputation in the world, like all who are hollow. He passes his days full of pleasures and free from failings, except that he is subject to the Cross of Honoour and the Academy

JOURNEY TO CHINA 2: THE PASSPORT. The foreigner who visits China is submitted to an indispensable formality; he receives a slip of paper on which is written the age he wants to indicate, the profession he says he pursues and the place where it pleases him to appoint his birth; all that followed by a description of particulars which applies to everybody, after which, against a consideration of two francs, the Chinese government is deemed to lend him succour and assistance for one year

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

Los Caprichos: Is there no one to untie us

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 56: －Needless to say, the antique is always beautiful. －Yes, wife, in marble..

Parisian Emotions 15: But waiter, it is unworthy

Parisian Emotions 15: But waiter, it is unworthy

NEWS 189: John Bull swears that he is attached to the son of Theodore by an indissoluble tie

Somebody Is Watching

Somebody Is Watching

Somebody is Watching

NEWS 175: Tell me, Mister Colimard, is it true that now the government's going to force all journalists to wear a uniform and that they'll make [them] pay security to all subscribers?..

NEWS 29: AT THE DOOR OF THE ÉLYSÉE [PALACE]: －Sirs, the Prince has told me to tell you that he is not there! －What! does he no longer wish to follow our advice? －No. he [sic] claims that you've already stuffed him full of it as it is... －Hapless France! hapless Prince!