Quote by Stephanie Perkins

“Madame Guillotine gets mad at me. Not because I told them to shove it, but because I didn’t say it in French. What is…

— Stephanie Perkins

“If our school ever performed a play about the French Revolution, she could play the guillotine.”

— Robin Benway

“Mrs. Scamler,’ she said, ‘do you study French, ma'am?’ ‘I do, indeed,’ I said; ‘two hours a day.’ ‘Then, ma’am,’ she says, ‘we call…

— John Davidson

Tuesday—we had school for the first time. Madame O’Malley had a moment of silence at the beginning of French class, a class that was…

— John Green

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

— Glen Duncan

“As the French say, who doesn't like getting their butt sucked?”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“My seven a.m. teacher was from France. And he spoke Frenglish. Sometimes it was funny, but when he announced which chapters we should study…

— Lila Felix

“Occasionally, merely for the pleasure of being cruel, we put unoffending Frenchmen on the rack with questions framed in the incomprehensible jargon of their…

— Mark Twain

GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.

— Ambrose Bierce

“Why not whip the teacher when the student misbehaves?”

— Diogenes

“Though we were forbidden to speak anything but French, the teacher would occasionally use us to practice any of her five fluent languages. "I…

— David Sedaris

“During the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that France had boasted of in…

— Baroness Orczy