Quote by Alistair Horne

“De Gaulle at his iciest had reproached Challe: “One does not impose conditions on de Gaulle!”

— Alistair Horne

“One does not impose conditions on de Gaulle!”

— Alistair Horne

“The only way I could conceive of waving a white flag, would be during the process of folding it, so to be used as…

— Tom Althouse

“Pardon my French for a second, Chief, but what the fuck?”

— Mark Frost

“So listen -- one way to lower the flag to half-mast is just to lower the flag. There's another way though. You can also…

— David Foster Wallace

“A French lieutenant was asked by the commander of the French forces, “Jean, it seems to me that many people are only saying the…

— Michael G. Kramer

The French flag is the only one to have a staff a thousand feet tall.

— Gustave Eiffel

Hmm. Petty? Yes. Ineffectual? Yes. Infuriating and off-putting? Yes. Counterproductive? Yes. It's got to be a product of the French Foreign Ministry.

— Glenn Reynolds

Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know whether you agree with…

— Leslie Fiedler

“He held the flag like a banner of defiance. ‘You can take our lives but you’ll never take our freedom!’ he screamed. Carcer’s men…

— Terry Pratchett

“Crois-moi, on cherche mal quand on ne réfléchit pas.”

— Alexandre Dumas

“Conjugation in French is a special kind of horror, on par with the sort of things you’d need to do to call up the…

— April Daniels