Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
Charles de Gaulle
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Charles de Gaulle
Age: 79 †
Born: 1890
Born: November 22
Died: 1970
Died: November 9
Former President Of The French Republic
Memoirist
Military Personnel
Military Theorist
Politician
Statesperson
Rijsel
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle
General Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle
Useful
Fairs
Fair
Rains
Rain
Diplomats
Soon
Drown
Military
Diplomacy
Every
Drop
Weather
More quotes by Charles de Gaulle
He who laughs last didn't get the joke.
Charles de Gaulle
Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
Charles de Gaulle
Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
Charles de Gaulle
It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
Charles de Gaulle
Deliberation is a function of the many action is the function of one.
Charles de Gaulle
We may go to the moon, but that' s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
Charles de Gaulle
I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.
Charles de Gaulle
China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.
Charles de Gaulle
No, I'm not talking about the Russians I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
Charles de Gaulle
I cannot prevent the French from being French
Charles de Gaulle
I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
Charles de Gaulle
One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was one cannot judge life until death.
Charles de Gaulle
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
Charles de Gaulle
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
Charles de Gaulle
How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
Charles de Gaulle
Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
Charles de Gaulle
A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
Charles de Gaulle
It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese.
Charles de Gaulle
What do you take me for, an idiot?
Charles de Gaulle
Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
Charles de Gaulle
