Some short serious or ironic definitions

Album: The salon guillotine.

Ambassador. A privileged spy.
General Marbot.

Anthropophage: A philanthropist who goes too far.
Adrien Decourcelle.

Blasé (être): The curvature of happiness.
Pierre Véron.

Bossole: The trembling soul of the ship.
Henri Heine.

Chance: Word by which one explains the success of others. Opposite: Bad luck, word by which one explains one's own failures.
Henri du Roure.

Camaraderie. The suburb of friendship.
Pierre Véron.

Chamber of deputies: A society of mutual discourses...

Cider. The squeeze of apple juice.

Consult someone: Ask them what they think of our opinion.

Tomorrow: The nickname of hope.
M. Corday,

Diplomacy: The longest path from one point to another.
Adrien Decourcelle.

Flirt: The watercolor of love.
Paul Bourget.

Legal costs. Mother Loi's accounts.

Slap. Donation between living persons…

Intermission. The oasis of the show (see oasis).

Statesman. A dead politician.

Honest people: Expression by which the different parties are accustomed to designating their members.

Tide: The pulse of the ocean.

Moroccans: The children of the Donars.

Words: Serve, depending on the case, to manifest ideas or to conceal their absence.

Naïreté: State of inferiority in which a mind naturally inclined to do and believe good finds itself. The touching epithet is generally added to this word, to better mark the pity that this sort of inferiority inspires in virtuous souls and upright hearts.
Henry du Roure.

Oasis: The intermission of the desert (see Intermission).

Eye: The sheath of the finger.
Emile Bergerat.

Armed peace: European cancer.

Perfume: The thought of flowers.

Patience: Everyday courage.

Lighthouse. The sailor's bell tower.
Henri Lavedan.

Pedestal: A narrow space, with four precipices around it.
Victor Hugo.

Flea: A grain of tobacco with a spring.
Jules Renard.

Grape: Wine in pills.
Henry Mürger.

Cold: Storm under the nostril.

Turtle: An Animal That Always Goes Belly to the Ground

Tribune: Well of the Assemblies: When One Seal Goes Down, the Other Goes Up.

Tapeworm. A Worm of One's Own...

Speed. It's the Disease of the Century. Our Contemporaries Want to Go Faster, Always Faster... But Where? They Don't Know.
Henry du Roure.