My first happiness year in my life was with Ayesha, Never before had I been so happy

All are happy at the big party. Never before had eunuchs seen so big a party as the one for Ayesha

We have the same gestures, even though Ayesha was not born from my stomach

Childish Acts 5: I would have never thought that at my age..

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!..

TODAY'S PHILANTHROPISTS 12: －So then, my friend, at the age of twenty two you had already killed three men... what a powerful nature, and how guilty society is for not having better guided it!... －Oh! yeah sir!... in my view the police have been very wrong... without them I wouldn't be here!..

IN CHINA 8: －To think that in France, I had so much trouble in getting one of them, and here, here I am with two on my arm... what a swanky place!..

SKETCHES OF EXPRESSIONS 38: The Charade: My first of my lot still keeps going... Horse...Silver...Public Road...good heaven!!!...that's not going

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

Strangers in Paris 16: The Daguerreotype portrait: －Here is the work of the sun..., how coloured it is, hm?... how warm... and all in three seconds! －Well, true...looking at that, you wouldn’t say that I’d been in the sun for only three seconds... you’d think I’d been in it for three years, because I look like a real negro... never mind, it’s a pretty portrait, and my wife will be well pleased!..

MUSICAL SKETCHES 3: AT THE CHAMPS-ELYSEES. It has never been known whether it is the music which makes the beer go down, or the beer which makes one swallow the music

"Okesa Watermelons" grown in Sado had been shipped out the island from the early Showa period

Conjugal Manners 29: This is the moment (past midnight) when calm and peace truly reign in happy households. Better late than never

Strangers in Paris 3: What is called dining in a restaurant: －Waiter!...I've been in your establishment for an hour and a quarter without having a chair...and you've still only given the tooth-picks to my wife who's dying of hunger... you'll make me lose my normal posture, and I'll end up with my feet in the dish... do you understand, waiter! －There now, Sir... there there now, there there!!!

THE DOOR-KEEPERS OF PARIS 4: － If you are not of the nobility, it's useless my showing you this appartment I let only to titled people

The Blue-stockings 3: Goodbye, my dear, I am going to my editors’..

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 62: THE DAQY WHEN YOU HAVE TO DISPLAY GALLANTRY: －How much is that big bouquet?... －Ten francs －Good God!... and this little here? －Fifteen francs －Damnation!..

NEWS 15: － These poor animals... they're so disfigured that you can't even recognise them... they who've been such good friends for five years!... oh! Mister Barbaroux, we're living in truly sad times!..

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

Parisian Emotions 27: That's the limit! I have bought four sizes, just like those there, in my life; Fifine, my first girlfriend; Cocotte, that wench Cocotte! big Mimi, and my wife, like that up there in the corner

Women Socialists 3: －It seems that the clubs are going to be completely closed... － The reac[tionaries]... They would never have dared to do that before the dissolution of the legion of Vesuvian Women!..

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 268: TWENTY YEARS AFTER. ARAGO －Once upon a time, it was different. CREMIEUX －Let's remember that

News 40: － It is not true that this tragedy contains beauties of the first order... and yet it was refused by the committee of the Théâtre Français and even by that of the Odéon... there is only one thing left: I am going to leave my manuscript with the caretaker of the Gymnasium, without giving my name!

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 63: THE NEIGHBOURS BEFORE THE JUSTICE OF THE PEACE: Well, I won the case all the same, and you won't be so stuck-up now, Mrs. Pimbèche... because the Justice of the Peace has sentenced you to go back to your house which backs on to mine!..