And yet we add that, outside the theater, these animals are even more ugly, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

I hope to prove one day that in the hands of a magpie, a feather is no less valuable than in the claws of a wolf or the legs of a fox, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Andrew Best Leloir, Honoré de Balzac

This old court apparently has an old falcon..., from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Louis-Henri Brevière, Honoré de Balzac

She posed herself as a superior owl, and was just a ridiculous owl, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, François Rouget, Honoré de Balzac

The Proprietor, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Andrew Best Leloir, Honoré de Balzac

She responded to my protests and oaths with a tone of mockery so cold that I swore to die, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Honoré de Balzac

He has each of them, as they say in the journals devoted to the fine arts, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Charles Tamisier, Honoré de Balzac

Now, I understand the mother wolf of Rome, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Louis-Henri Brevière, Honoré de Balzac

My hero was good at hanging, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Honoré de Balzac

Mèderic, delighted in the seventh heaven, leans over to check his conquest..., from "Little Miseries of Human Life"

J. J. Grandville, Paul-Emile-Daurand Forgues, Brugnot, Henri Fournier

Do you see me reduced to driving by the roughest paths their little delicate feet, in the grip of the mockery of the leaders?, from "Little Miseries of Human Life"

J. J. Grandville, Paul-Emile-Daurand Forgues, Henri Fournier

Only everywhere are water faucets, watering cans of any shape, shovels and pots of any size, from "Little Miseries of Human Life"

J. J. Grandville, Paul-Emile-Daurand Forgues, Henri Fournier

As soon as I set foot on the island..., from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Honoré de Balzac