France Quote by Charles de Gaulle Download Open image “France has no friends, only interests.” — Charles de Gaulle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare France Inspirational Interest No friends
I have no relationship to the French bourgeoisie. I don't like connecting with them. — Claire Denis Copy Share Image
The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties. — Eric Rohmer Copy Share Image
It is impossible to think of France except in terms of individuals. — Andre Siegfried Copy Share Image
Once you've lived in France, you don't want to live anywhere else, including France. — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends. — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
Don't ask who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
“Have you ever seen a dictator on a run-off ballot? [Responding to the charges of a dictatorial bent, after being forced into a run-off… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look to the future in… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese? — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
I did not know that the planning for biological and chemical warfare was so widespread in England, and even in France before France fell.… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I… — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
In France they spend six months training policemen, then they give them a gun and put them on the streets, and I don't know… — Mathieu Kassovitz Copy Share Image
France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Creating a top team and being in a position to win the Tour de France will give me a nice feeling. But I know… — Fernando Alonso Copy Share Image
In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the 40th anniversary of D-Day. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
Luckily, he was in the process of moving to France at the time, anyway. But if he had stayed in the States, I don't… — Terry Zwigoff Copy Share Image
I was in the South of France, in Saint-Tropez and I met her when it was totally unexpected. I was very lucky because she… — Bert Stern Copy Share Image
Banning the burkini doesn't produce terrorists. But it does make the people who are already alienated, who are already disenfranchised, I many cases, economically… — Michael Leiter Copy Share Image
