Cautionary tales Quote by Sophie Barthes

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

As Baudelaire said it so beautifully, Emma Bovary is an androgynous character. She cannot be reduced to a gender or a sociological type. She…

— Sophie Barthes

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

— Lydia Davis

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

“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

“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

An interviewer asked me what book I thought best represented the modern American woman. All I could think of to answer was: Madame Bovary.

— Joseph McCarthy

“You should wait, William," Miss Frost said. "The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you…

— John Irving

“Madame Bovary, c'est moi. Emma Bovary. She was the first. The first to thrash around in the space between a packaged wonder and reality,…

— Antonia Quirke

“Madame Boulle, in spite of her experiences among the highest English families, was amazed at the coolness shown by Lady Emily. A grandchild in…

— Angela Thirkell

Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently…

— Natalie Dormer