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

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

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

NEWS 233: All the same we never doubted that one day we'd sail in that ship

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!..

We are all honest people, let us embrace each other, and let the matter end

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

IN CHINA 18: －They're going to be truly caught, those Europeans!... they've got cannons which are terrible, because they're grooved, [but] I, I've had the excellent idea of making all my soldiers striped!..

The Good Bourgeois 20: －It appears they have just seen the sea serpent again in the Indian Ocean! －Is that possible, for goodness sake! －Certainly it's possible, for goodness sake, because I told you that it says so in le Constitutionnel! so!..

The Good Bourgeois 20: －It appears they have just seen the sea serpent again in the Indian Ocean! －Is that possible, for goodness sake! －Certainly it's possible, for goodness sake, because I told you that it says so in le Constitutionnel! so!..

PARISIAN SKETCHES 33: － How late you are arriving at the Stock-Exchange... I'll warrant you've had a windfall?... scoundrel!... － What do you expect!... I'll settle down..., when I get old!..

Where are we going, where are we going?...We are walking on a volcano, the gulf of revolutions is open beneath our footsteps...the carriage of state has been halted by the flood of all these bad passions

Where are we going, where are we going?...We are walking on a volcano, the gulf of revolutions is open beneath our footsteps...the carriage of state has been halted by the flood of all these bad passions

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!..

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!..

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 1: A VISIT TO THE SALON. To be sure, all sculptors are smutty!..

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

NEWS 28: － I told you just now that I wouldn't be annoyed if the Oriental affair put itself to rights. － Yes, and so? － Well, it's funny, but since I've drunk that Mars beer, I'd like it if we had a war

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!..

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 12: A day of the 1st performance

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 12: A day of the 1st performance

TODAY'S PHILANTHROPISTS 11: －I've already forbidden you to call me master... understrand that all men are brothers... animal!

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 48: －They said to the Government that it wasn't progressing, so naturally it got the idea of taking all the railways!... －That's wanting to go too fast!..

THE BACHELOR'S DAY 10: 5 O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON: Mr Coquelet you're an unsociable being, d'you understand with your dog; that's twice when I've had 149, he jumps on the table and jumbles it all up. Your dog's and accomplice!... and you're an old cheat

NEWS 110: －Great Prince Muley, son of Muley, do you deign to place yourself in the shade beneath this object... the Englishman who had the kindness to make over this object to me for a hundred gold pieces told me that it was of excellent use in all the storms of life... －Let me be... it's useless... the day when the French took away my parasol, I caught sunstroke from which I shall never recover!..