Quote by Stephen Clarke Download Open image ““there is a French version of the story, and a true one.”” — Stephen Clarke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“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 Copy Share Image
“She is a character in a novel, he says. The product of a male author’s imagination. This Defoe, is he French? No, I believe… — Kim Leine Copy Share Image
“He had learned Lesson One: Let French women tell you what they want.” — Peggy Kopman-Owens Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The following is a true story. However, the characters, locations, situations, and events are entirely fictional.” — Derek Fox Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of tales: one accurate but not true, the other true but not accurate.” — Margaret George Copy Share Image
“It´s one thing to enjoy a story, but it´s quite another to take it for the truth.” — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“France is to me the heroine in the romance of all the nations of all time. This feeling was born in me years ago… — William Arthur Sirmon Copy Share Image
“This is a very French trait. Today, if a big manufacturing company is in trouble, it will parachute in a graduate of one of France’s grandes écoles, someone who has studied business theory and maths for ten years but never actually been inside a factory. The important thing to the French is not experience, it is leadership – or, more… — Stephen Clarke Copy Share
“When a Quebecker is interviewed for French TV, he or she is often subtitled in ‘normal’ French, as if the language they speak in… — Stephen Clarke Copy Share Image
“If they wanted their shit stirred, then stirred their shit was jolly well going to be.” — Stephen Clarke Copy Share Image
“In French eyes, it was of course doubly wrong to execute a beautiful woman.” — Stephen Clarke Copy Share Image
“it must have been hard making a silent movie about a girl who hears voices.)” — Stephen Clarke Copy Share Image
“Philippe also brought along musicians - mainly trumpeters and drummers - to scare the enemy. Even then, French music was known to terrify the… — Stephen Clarke Copy Share Image
“Tanacharison (who could relate to the cow because he claimed that the French had boiled and eaten his father),” — Stephen Clarke Copy Share Image
“This is of course the Prince of Wales’s motto to this day, though subsequent princes have not adopted John of Bohemia’s custom of fighting… — Stephen Clarke Copy Share Image
“There is a class of tourists who never seem to see the things they're visiting, I thought. They prefer to look at directions to… — Stephen Clarke Copy Share Image
“The Frenchmen tried to explain that sexual intercourse between males was taboo (despite anything the Brits might have told them about French sailors),” — Stephen Clarke Copy Share Image
“Verrazzano must have been turning in his grave. (Except that he didn’t have one because he’d been eaten.)” — Stephen Clarke Copy Share Image
