How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
Treaties you see are like girls and roses; they last while they last.
I cannot prevent the French from being French.
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
France has no friends, only interests.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.