--- title: "15 Charles De Gaulle Quotes by 15 authors" description: "Browse 15 Charles De Gaulle quotes by 15 authors. Discover the best Charles De Gaulle sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/540/janet-flanner-23939_brake_charles-de-gaulle-has-been-abysmally-car_594270.jpg" --- > [ \[Charles de Gaulle\] has been abysmally careless, like a man running a bus over mountains, who forgot to equip it with good… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-flanner/charles-de-gaulle-has-been-abysmally-careless-like-a-man-running-a/) [Janet Flanner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-flanner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/540/janet-flanner-23939_brake_charles-de-gaulle-has-been-abysmally-car_594270.jpg) > [ \[Larry Kramer\] thinks Charles de Gaulle was gay. He thinks Max Schmeling was gay. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-sessums/larry-kramer-thinks-charles-de-gaulle-was-gay-he-thinks-max-schmeling/) [Kevin Sessums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-sessums/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/045/kevin-sessums-9486_gay_larry-kramer-thinks-charles-de-gaulle-wa_160828.jpg) > [Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-rumsfeld/don-t-think-of-yourself-as-indispensable-or-infallible-as-charles-de/) [Donald Rumsfeld](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-rumsfeld/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/99d/donald-rumsfeld-1507_indispensable_don-t-think-of-yourself-as-indispensable_3092337.png) > [“I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.’ Charles de Gaulle.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ashwin-sanghi/i-have-come-to-the-conclusion-that-politics-is-too-serious-a-matter-2/) [Ashwin Sanghi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ashwin-sanghi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb1/ashwin-sanghi-3271_politicians_i-have-come-to-the-conclusion-that-polit_2398800.png) > [“Panicked, Charles de Gaulle fled the country, heading for refuge at French military bases in Baden-Baden, Germany. Half”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tilar-j-mazzeo/panicked-charles-de-gaulle-fled-the-country-heading-for-refuge-at/) [Tilar J. Mazzeo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tilar-j-mazzeo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/09c/tilar-j-mazzeo-62658_quote_panicked-charles-de-gaulle-fled-the-coun_1333849.jpg) > [“Charles de Gaulle said? ‘The graveyards are full of indispensable men.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-bushkin/charles-de-gaulle-said-the-graveyards-are-full-of-indispensable-men/) [Henry Bushkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-bushkin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c54/henry-bushkin-56597_dead_charles-de-gaulle-said-the-graveyards-ar_517922.jpg) > [I wholeheartedly welcomed Charles de Gaulle eulogy of French valour, to which he attributed the liberation of Paris.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/coco-chanel/i-wholeheartedly-welcomed-charles-de-gaulle-eulogy-of-french-valour/) [Coco Chanel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/coco-chanel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b2/coco-chanel-1318_eulogy_i-wholeheartedly-welcomed-charles-de-gau_1744089.jpg) > [Now we are intimately locked together. You get swine flu in Mexico; it’s a problem for Charles de Gaulle Airport 24 hours…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paddy-ashdown/now-we-are-intimately-locked-together-you-get-swine-flu-in-mexico-it/) [Paddy Ashdown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paddy-ashdown/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/094/paddy-ashdown-17120_airports_now-we-are-intimately-locked-together-yo_734012.jpg) > [I always say if you're going to do a movie about Charles de Gaulle get a Frenchman, you know. I'm not French.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/billy-bob-thornton/i-always-say-if-you-re-going-to-do-a-movie-about-charles-de-gaulle/) [Billy Bob Thornton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/billy-bob-thornton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ea/billy-bob-thornton-2003_actors_i-always-say-if-you-re-going-to-do-a-mov_2560526.jpg) > [I woke up one time coming out of a blackout, and I was on an airplane, descending to land in Charles de…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-walsh/i-woke-up-one-time-coming-out-of-a-blackout-and-i-was-on-an-airplane/) [Joe Walsh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-walsh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ef/joe-walsh-7305_airplane_i-woke-up-one-time-coming-out-of-a-black_1363795.jpg) > [“For get this quite clear, every time we have to decide between Europe and the open sea, it is always the open…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/for-get-this-quite-clear-every-time-we-have-to-decide-between-europe/) [Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ae/winston-churchill-95_choice_for-get-this-quite-clear-every-time-we-h_3036601.jpg) > [“The Jackal was perfectly aware that in 1963 General de Gaulle was not only the President of France; he was also the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-forsyth/the-jackal-was-perfectly-aware-that-in-1963-general-de-gaulle-was-not/) [Frederick Forsyth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-forsyth/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/10b/frederick-forsyth-23604_john-kennedy_the-jackal-was-perfectly-aware-that-in-1_2888344.jpg) > [“She was beautiful and lithe, with soft skin the color of bread and eyes like green almonds, and she had straight black…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/she-was-beautiful-and-lithe-with-soft-skin-the-color-of-bread-and/) [Gabriel García Márquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/646/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_beautiful-woman_she-was-beautiful-and-lithe-with-soft-sk_338699.jpg) > [“Finding a taxi, she felt like a child pressing her nose to the window of a candy store as she watched the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-a-bucchianeri/finding-a-taxi-she-felt-like-a-child-pressing-her-nose-to-the-window/) [E.A. Bucchianeri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-a-bucchianeri/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe6/e-a-bucchianeri-9143_adventures_finding-a-taxi-she-felt-like-a-child-pre_2815112.jpg) > [ “Roosevelt fought hard for the United States to host the opening session \[of the United Nations\]; it seemed a magnanimous gesture to… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-bamford/roosevelt-fought-hard-for-the-united-states-to-host-the-opening/) [James Bamford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-bamford/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de4/james-bamford-91862_eavesdropping_roosevelt-fought-hard-for-the-united-sta_1292221.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/charles-de-gaulle/#itemlist", "name": "Charles De Gaulle Quotes", "numberOfItems": 15, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "[Charles de Gaulle] has been abysmally careless, like a man running a bus over mountains, who forgot to equip it with good brakes.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Janet Flanner" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-flanner/charles-de-gaulle-has-been-abysmally-careless-like-a-man-running-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/540/janet-flanner-23939_brake_charles-de-gaulle-has-been-abysmally-car_594270.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/540/janet-flanner-23939_brake_charles-de-gaulle-has-been-abysmally-car_594270.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/540/janet-flanner-23939_brake_charles-de-gaulle-has-been-abysmally-car_594270.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“[Charles de Gaulle] has been abysmally careless, like a man running a bus over mountains, who forgot to…” — Janet Flanner", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "[Larry Kramer] thinks Charles de Gaulle was gay. 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To assassinate him, as was later proved, was considerably more difficult than to kill President John F. Kennedy of the United States. Although the English killer did not know it, French security experts who had through American courtesy been given an opportunity to study the precautions taken to guard the life of President Kennedy had returned somewhat disdainful of those precautions as exercised by the American Secret Service. 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She was dressed with subtle taste: a lynx jacket, a raw silk blouse with very delicate flowers, natural linen trousers, and shoes with a narrow stripe the color of bougainvillea. ‘This is the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen,’ I thought, when I saw her pass by with the stealthy stride of a lioness, while I waited in the check-in line at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris for the plane to New York.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gabriel García Márquez" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/she-was-beautiful-and-lithe-with-soft-skin-the-color-of-bread-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/646/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_beautiful-woman_she-was-beautiful-and-lithe-with-soft-sk_338699.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/646/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_beautiful-woman_she-was-beautiful-and-lithe-with-soft-sk_338699.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/646/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_beautiful-woman_she-was-beautiful-and-lithe-with-soft-sk_338699.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“She was beautiful and lithe, with soft skin the color of bread and eyes like green almonds, and she had…” — Gabriel García Márquez", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 14, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Finding a taxi, she felt like a child pressing her nose to the window of a candy store as she watched the changing vista pass by while the twilight descended and the capital became bathed in a translucent misty lavender glow. Entering the city from that airport was truly unique. Charles de Gaulle, built nineteen miles north of the bustling metropolis, ensured that the final point of destination was veiled from the eyes of the traveller as they descended. No doubt, the officials scrupulously planned the airport’s location to prevent the incessant air traffic and roaring engines from visibly or audibly polluting the ambience of their beloved capital, and apparently, they succeeded. If one flew over during the summer months, the visitor would be visibly presented with beautifully managed quilt-like fields of alternating gold and green appearing as though they were tilled and clipped with the mathematical precision of a slide rule. The countryside was dotted with quaint villages and towns that were obviously under meticulous planning control. When the aircraft began to descend, this prevailing sense of exactitude and order made the visitor long for an aerial view of the capital city and its famous wonders, hoping they could see as many landmarks as they could before they touched ground, as was the usual case with other major international airports, but from this point of entry, one was denied a glimpse of the city below. Green fields, villages, more fields, the ground grew closer and closer, a runway appeared, a slight bump or two was felt as the craft landed, and they were surrounded by the steel and glass buildings of the airport. Slightly disappointed with this mysterious game of hide-and-seek, the voyager must continue on and collect their baggage, consoled by the reflection that they will see the metropolis as they make their way into town. For those travelling by road, the concrete motorway with its blue road signs, the underpasses and the typical traffic-logged hubbub of industrial areas were the first landmarks to greet the eye, without a doubt, it was a disheartening first impression. Then, the real introduction began. Quietly, and almost imperceptibly, the modern confusion of steel and asphalt was effaced little by little as the exquisite timelessness of Parisian heritage architecture was gradually unveiled. Popping up like mushrooms were cream sandstone edifices filigreed with curled, swirling carvings, gently sloping mansard roofs, elegant ironwork lanterns and wood doors that charmed the eye, until finally, the traveller was completely submerged in the glory of the Second Empire ala Baron Haussmann’s master plan of city design, the iconic grand mansions, tree-lined boulevards and avenues, the quaint gardens, the majestic churches with their towers and spires, the shops and cafés with their colourful awnings, all crowded and nestled together like jewels encrusted on a gold setting.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "E.A. 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Bucchianeri", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 15, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Roosevelt fought hard for the United States to host the opening session [of the United Nations]; it seemed a magnanimous gesture to most of the delegates. But the real reason was to better enable the United States to eavesdrop on its guests. Coded messages between the foreign delegations and their distant capitals passed through U.S. telegraph lines in San Francisco. With wartime censorship laws still in effect, Western Union and the other commercial telegraph companies were required to pass on both coded and uncoded telegrams to U.S. Army codebreakers. Once the signals were captured, a specially designed time-delay device activated to allow recorders to be switched on. Devices were also developed to divert a single signal to several receivers. The intercepts were then forwarded to Arlington Hall, headquarters of the Army codebreakers, over forty-six special secure teletype lines. By the summer of 1945 the average number of daily messages had grown to 289,802, from only 46,865 in February 1943. The same soldiers who only a few weeks earlier had been deciphering German battle plans were now unraveling the codes and ciphers wound tightly around Argentine negotiating points. During the San Francisco Conference, for example, American codebreakers were reading messages sent to and from the French delegation, which was using the Hagelin M-209, a complex six-wheel cipher machine broken by the Army Security Agency during the war. The decrypts revealed how desperate France had become to maintain its image as a major world power after the war. On April 29, for example, Fouques Duparc, the secretary general of the French delegation, complained in an encrypted note to General Charles de Gaulle in Paris that France was not chosen to be one of the \"inviting powers\" to the conference. \"Our inclusion among the sponsoring powers,\" he wrote, \"would have signified, in the eyes of all, our return to our traditional place in the world.\" In charge of the San Francisco eavesdropping and codebreaking operation was Lieutenant Colonel Frank B. Rowlett, the protégé of William F. Friedman. Rowlett was relieved when the conference finally ended, and he considered it a great success. \"Pressure of work due to the San Francisco Conference has at last abated,\" he wrote, \"and the 24-hour day has been shortened. The feeling in the Branch is that the success of the Conference may owe a great deal to its contribution.\" The San Francisco Conference served as an important demonstration of the usefulness of peacetime signals intelligence. Impressive was not just the volume of messages intercepted but also the wide range of countries whose secrets could be read. Messages from Colombia provided details on quiet disagreements between Russia and its satellite nations as well as on \"Russia's prejudice toward the Latin American countries.\" Spanish decrypts indicated that their diplomats in San Francisco were warned to oppose a number of Russian moves: \"Red maneuver . . . must be stopped at once,\" said one. A Czechoslovakian message indicated that nation's opposition to the admission of Argentina to the UN. From the very moment of its birth, the United Nations was a microcosm of East-West spying. Just as with the founding conference, the United States pushed hard to locate the organization on American soil, largely to accommodate the eavesdroppers and codebreakers of NSA and its predecessors.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "James Bamford" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-bamford/roosevelt-fought-hard-for-the-united-states-to-host-the-opening/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de4/james-bamford-91862_eavesdropping_roosevelt-fought-hard-for-the-united-sta_1292221.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de4/james-bamford-91862_eavesdropping_roosevelt-fought-hard-for-the-united-sta_1292221.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de4/james-bamford-91862_eavesdropping_roosevelt-fought-hard-for-the-united-sta_1292221.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Roosevelt fought hard for the United States to host the opening session [of the United Nations]; it seemed a…” — James Bamford", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/charles-de-gaulle/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/charles-de-gaulle/", "name": "Charles De Gaulle Quotes", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/charles-de-gaulle/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/540/janet-flanner-23939_brake_charles-de-gaulle-has-been-abysmally-car_594270.jpg" }, "description": "Browse 15 Charles De Gaulle quotes by 15 authors. 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