Future relationship Quote by John Irving

“The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you will believe that your future relationships will…

— John Irving

But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.

— David Mitchell

I first read 'Madame Bovary' in my teens or early twenties.

— Lydia Davis

“The choice of the point(s) of view from which the story is told is arguably the most important single decision that the novelist has…

— David Lodge

Madame Bovary is one my favorite novels. Emma Bovary will always be an enigma, but as the years pass, I feel that I understand…

— Sophie Barthes

“But I'll have to ask you to wait a long time, Anne," said Gilbert sadly. "It will be three years before I'll finish my…

— L. M. Montgomery

I have a boundless passion for Flaubert. It's unthinkable to me that someone might not have read 'Madame Bovary.' He writes with a scalpel.…

— Brigitte Macron

I'm astounded by people who take eighteen years to write something. That's how long it took that guy to write Madame Bovary, and was…

— Sylvester Stallone

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. I have read all Mrs.…

— Jane Austen

“Mary McCarthy, though, had it wrong when she wrote that “Madame Bovary is Don Quixote in skirts.” Emma’s suffering is Platonic: she searches, in…

— Mark Lilla

“There were days that I really wished Evie had been there so that I could discuss my undying love for Lucien Knight, my hatred…

— Erin Noelle

“On the other hand, this affair afforded great delight to Madame Magloire.”

— Victor Hugo