Journalism Quote by Margaret Atwood

“there is a French version of the story, and a true one.”

— Stephen Clarke

“France? Eugh. It’s so…full of the French,” she said. “I can’t stand it. The language, the culture, the wine, the food. All dreadful.” She…

— Debbie McGowan

“I had come to the conclusion that I must really be French, only no one had ever informed me of this fact. I loved…

— Julia Child

“What is it you Frenchies say? Tou-che? You see, I'm a bit of a poet and you did not know it, what?”

— The Scarlet Pimpernel

“What a morning," Louis would say as they walked the rocky, dry hills above their rented chateau just outside Marseilles. "I want to take…

— Nancy Horan

“I spent the period reading the first novel assigned for English. And wow. If I hadn't realized I was in France yet, I do…

— Stephanie Perkins

“He had learned Lesson One: Let French women tell you what they want.”

— Peggy Kopman-Owens

“He spoke that refined French in which our grandparents not only spoke bit thought...”

— Leo Tolstoy

“...a French lieutenant, who had been long enough out of France to forget his own language, but not long enough in England to learn…

— Henry Fielding

“Plus there was the standard French insult of ignoring your French and answering in English.”

— Glen Duncan

“Do you know what it came from? said Luke. Mayday? No, I said. It’s a strange word to use for that, isn’t it? Newspapers…

— Margaret Atwood

“I'm still bothered. You're French. If you lot stopped bothering the coffee and tobacco industries would collapse.”

— Glen Duncan