184 Quotes by Charles de Gaulle

Treaties you see are like girls and roses; they last while they last.

It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.

I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 – I didn’t have television then.

I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.

How can you govern a country which has two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?

I cannot prevent the French from being French.

No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!

I always thought I was Jeanne d’Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.

Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.