Ce qu’on dit et ce qu’on pense. Petites scènes du monde

The author is able to describe all these situations in which people say something but actually believe something else, in more or less a hundred pages. Each illustration goes with a caption divided in two: on the first half it is marked what it is said, while on the second half what it has actually been thought. For instance, the nephew says to his old uncle: “How happy I am, dear uncle, to see you healthy again”, but he is actually thinking: “There goes away my heritage”.

Combien ce qu’on dit est loin de ce qu’on pense !
Que la bouche et le cœur sont peu d’intelligence !
(Racine)