FastSaying

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window


Charles de Montesquieu

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not f...
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighbor...
MARK TWAIN Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighbor...
MARK TWAIN At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cann...
KHALED HOSSEINI When excellence comes in at the door, failure flies out the window.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Rumor, than which no evil flies more swiftly. She flourishes as she flies, gains strength by mere mo...
VIRGIL Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
LIVY When life life does not find a singer to sing her heat, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind...
KHALIL GIBRAN When life life does not find a singer to sing her heart, she produces a philosopher to speak her min...
KAHLIL GIBRAN There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she ha...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonize...
THOMAS HARDY She has her helmet, shield and sword. Does she finish him or take pity on the gutless thing before h...
DONNA LYNN HOPE Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of ...
ANAIS NIN The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is...
LOUISE J. KAPLAN He remembers when he was very small his mother once said she wished happiness and adventure for him....
ERIN MORGENSTERN It’s about the dream of second chances,” he says finally. He hasn’t raised his eyes from the p...
KATJA MILLAY When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window.
PROVERB When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would n...
STEPHEN CRANE Every single thing she does motivates me. I guess not every single thing, but at least on the tennis...
VENUS WILLIAMS She is always pretending she loves me, but look at her now. Am I in her thoughts? Is there a tender ...
SHERWOOD ANDERSON When one door closes, find another."
Kylie gazed back up. "And what if there isn't another door...
C.C. HUNTER Look at Jane Lynch, another Chicagoan. She has a career I'd kill for. She does amazing work; she...
AMY LANDECKER There are trigger points that Dr. Robin can find. She does a pain evaluation on every animal that wa...
ILONA GREEN It occurs to her that he is attempting to let her win, an act she considers highly unnecessary since...
LUIS CAMARA SILVA There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him.
CASSANDRA CLARE When she performs ... all eyes are on her. She has these signature skills that she does on the floor...
DIANE ROBERTS A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
HELEN ROWLAND She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because...
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door
CONFUCIUS At the end of her life she was aware of heat but not pain. She had time to consider his eyes, eyes o...
STEPHEN KING Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.
CONFUCIUS Woman -- for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her...
LUIGI PIRANDELLO She's at the top of her game. She has trained excellent, and she does well when her races are spaced...
JEFF BONDE She had no idea how George delighted in her funny ways, or watched her through the window as she sto...
ALLEGRA GOODMAN You are a door to an existence she does not desire, but even if the room beyond is repugnant, that d...
MOHSIN HAMID When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray
PUBLILIUS SYRUS When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) Donna does not stop at her own personal commitment. She has the ability to inspire others.
MARIANNE VIRGILI It does not happen all at once. There is no instant pudding.
W. EDWARDS DEMING I always hated distances. She loves it, though. We, and her coaches, have to caution her from overdo...
LYNN LAFREE When she walks out of your life, let her go
SOTONYE ANGA There's a woman I see who's not my therapist, but she's like an old friend who's a t...
LOUIS C. K. One does not seek love,' she told him, 'it should find you all on it's own
BARBARA LIEBERMAN Something caught in her throat at this second thanks, when she'd threatened him so brutally. When yo...
KRISTIN CASHORE I am standing upon the seashore.A ship at my side spreads her whitesails to the morning breeze and s...
HENRY VAN DYKE Love is the sister to Truth, but they differ in two ways. You must go to Truth to find her. She will...
SUZY KASSEM But the lies which Odette ordinarily told were less innocent, and served to prevent discoveries whic...
MARCEL PROUST When ignorance opens the door, reason flies out the window.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and...
HENRY VAN DYKE I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a blac...
SALMA HAYEK It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense,...
LEO TOLSTOY The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes t...
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS ...his soul (was) ringing like a well-struck bell. But it was a bell that rang with more than joy an...
PAUL HOFFMAN Her hands warming on tea looked like chunks of knitting a child had felted in grubby palms. Enough d...
LAUREN GROFF Sensuality does not wear a watch but she always gets to the essential places on time. She is adventu...
J. RUTH GENDLER With the passing of time, she would slowly tire of this exercise. She would find it increasingly exh...
KHALED HOSSEINI No one can be caught in places he does not visit
DANISH PROVERB She may not be the most imposing figure on the field, but no one comes to play like she does.
ED YANES Ya Ummi(my mother), I cannot live my life with a woman who has no key to my mind and does not share ...
AHDAF SOUEIF That sounds almost practiced, James Carstairs. How many girls have you made swoon with that observat...
CASSANDRA CLARE So I watch her work and put all her energy, all her force, all herself, all is inside her work. Does...
JINAT REHANA BEGUM To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier. When he presses himself down upon her long ...
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE There are no makeovers in my books. The ugly duckling does not become a beautiful swan. She becomes ...
MAEVE BINCHY The Story of the Woman with Three Brothers"

A woman once had three brothers. They all had...
LISA SEE Then she sat as if paralyzed, thinking. She had never in her life felt such a longing. She wanted Mi...
STIEG LARSSON She put both her hands on his shoulders and gazed at him long, with a deep look of ecstasy and yet s...
LEO TOLSTOY There is no woman in the world who does not abuse the power she has been able to acquire
PIERRE CHODERLOS DE LACLOS You had every right to be. He raised his eyes to look at her and she was suddenly and strangely remi...
CASSANDRA CLARE Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not...
TAYLOR HACKFORD Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, Not she denied Him with unholy tongue; She, wh...
EATON STANNARD BARRETT [Sister Venus said] every single thing ... I guess not every single thing, but at least on the tenni...
SERENA WILLIAMS She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymo...
ALICE SEBOLD He felt she could be unpredictable and possibly violent. At one point, she indicated to him that she...
STEVEN LANDES The Cross of Christ is to be a reality to me not only once for all at my conversion, but all through...
FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,' she says. 'Although she does her accounting a little ...
MARGARET ATWOOD [One suspects there's a little projection going on in that passage, for the author does come across ...
LAURA JOPLIN You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she...
JOHN RUSKIN If a woman stands in a kitchen rubbing her eyes and pouring coffee with no one there to see her, doe...
MARYA HORNBACHER There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Betrayal is too kind a word to describe a situation in which a father says he loves his daughter but...
MARGARET SMITH When you look at her,
if you do not feel
blessed to have her.
She is not yours to kee...
PIERRE ALEX JEANTY She stepped closer to one of the statues. It looked wide-eyed, almost afraid as she reached out her ...
MELISSA MARR Elektra met Matt, and she fell in love with him. And I think he brought some good out of her at some...
ELODIE YUNG Fred started to follow, but Nita caught him in cupped hands, holding him back for a moment. "Fred! D...
DIANE DUANE But now she could not bear the way she sounded. She was not a person anyone could love.

....
PETER CAREY Prison left me with some strange little tics.' She has taken all the door off their hinges in all th...
ANNA FUNDER The girl looks out the window, watching the gentle, familiar blue sky fade into darkness. The stars ...
AMIE KAUFMAN To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one pl...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Through True Love, she merges with Him. She who does not know her Husband Lord, the Architect of kar...
GURU NANAK And yet, as she sits there with him on the window seat, with his strong arms around her, she knows t...
JULIA HOBAN She didn’t know how long they stood on that roof, tangled up in each other, mouths and hands rovin...
SARAH J. MAAS She does not entirely fit in. She comes out of the French tradition and a classical tradition that's...
MARTIN CHAPMAN The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens. [La...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) I got him in the office and got her on the speaker phone. I was at my wit's end with him. I was read...
DAVE MAGARITY When she came to her senses again she cut off all contact with him. It had not been easy, but she ha...
STIEG LARSSON She is a lady.She takes care of herself both physically and emotionally. She tries to look nice, be ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The worthless bride does not know her Husband Lord she is deluded, forgetting her Husband Lord, she ...
GURU NANAK When a woman is romantically subdued, all she does at that moment is under the influence of her desi...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON

More Charles de Montesquieu

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The less men think, the more they talk.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name o...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwe...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and th...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happines...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The love of democracy is that of equality.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society ...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU In the state of nature, indeed, all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. S...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerte...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Libert...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are alread...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shap...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future gener...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU An author is a fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on bor...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenti...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Solemnity is the shield of idiots
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name o...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to ex...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shap...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU This is how I define talent; it is a gift that God has given us in secret, which we reveal without k...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU An absolute ruler is an undesireable leader.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Laws undertake to punish only overt acts
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, yet wise.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Liberty is the right to do what the law permits
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Peace is a natural effect of trade
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The less men think, the more they talk
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Useless laws weaken necessary laws
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and th...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwe...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than ot...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU What orators lack in depth they make up to you in length
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Happy are the people whose annals are boring to read
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Virtue has need of limits
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Peace is a natural effect of trade.
DE MONTESQUIEU If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
DE MONTESQUIEU Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
DE MONTESQUIEU In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the fo...
DE MONTESQUIEU We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenti...
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason...
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not f...
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, yet wise.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU This is how I define talent; it is a gift that God has given us in secret, which we reveal without k...
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU What orators lack in depth, they make up to you in length.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happines...
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that ot...
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU [The Ottoman Empire] whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerfu...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU (CHARLES-LOUIS DE SECONDAT) Liberty is the right to do as the law permits.
MONTESQUIEU If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that ...
MONTESQUIEU Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
MONTESQUIEU There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the na...
MONTESQUIEU I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.
MONTESQUIEU After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
MONTESQUIEU Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenti...
MONTESQUIEU If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to ...
MONTESQUIEU Les hommes extrêmement heureux, et les hommes extrêmement malheureux a , sont également portés �...
MONTESQUIEU - « Les lois y [dans une monarchie] tiennent la place de toutes ces vertus, dont on n’a aucun bes...
MONTESQUIEU - « Ces règles sont un rapport constamment établi. Entre un corps mû et un autre corps mû, c’...
MONTESQUIEU One cannot govern with 'buts'.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
CHARLES DE GAULLE My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
CHARLES DE GAULLE The church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other tha...
CHARLES DE GAULLE Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and...
CHARLES DE LINT I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things ...
CHARLES DE GAULLE The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Growing up, I'd already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician....
CHARLES DE LINT I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be a friend ...
CHARLES DE LINT I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience ...
CHARLES DE LINT How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty six varieties of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLE When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each ...
CHARLES DE GAULLE France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, t...
CHARLES DE GAULLE Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined...
CHARLES DE GAULLE The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
CHARLES DE GAULLE In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
CHARLES DE GAULLE I respect only those who resist me; but I cannot tolerate them.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains, they drown in every drop.
CHARLES DE GAULLE For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Treaties are like roses and young girls -- they last while they last
CHARLES DE GAULLE Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its ...
CHARLES DE LINT Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
CHARLES DE GAULLE In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the...
CHARLES DE GAULLE When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each ...
CHARLES DE GAULLE When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, a...
CHARLES DE LINT Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than...
CHARLES DE GAULLE Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.
CHARLES DE LINT No nation has friends only interests
CHARLES DE GAULLE That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays inv...
CHARLES DE LINT Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things...
CHARLES DE GAULLE In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfa...
CHARLES DE GAULLE I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the peopl...
CHARLES DE LINT I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
CHARLES DE GAULLE I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
CHARLES DE GAULLE The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people...
CHARLES DE GAULLE You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
CHARLES DE GAULLE It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so muc...
CHARLES DE GAULLE Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country th...
CHARLES DE GAULLE You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally ...
CHARLES DE GAULLE Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I...
CHARLES DE GAULLE Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last.
CHARLES DE GAULLE A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which...
CHARLES DE GAULLE The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
CHARLES DE GAULLE You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that...
CHARLES DE GAULLE How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLE Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
CHARLES DE GAULLE The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Never relinquish the initiative.
CHARLES DE GAULLE France cannot be France without greatness.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
CHARLES DE GAULLE I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who tak...
CHARLES DE GAULLE Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy,...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you...
CHARLES DE LINT You'll live. Only the best get killed.
CHARLES DE GAULLE When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much...
CHARLES DE GAULLE A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips...
CHARLES DE GAULLE No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
CHARLES DE GAULLE But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magi...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet an...
CHARLES DE LINT Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, cell...
CHARLES DE GAULLE Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, ...
CHARLES DE LINT In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the...
CHARLES DE GAULLE You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.
CHARLES DE LINT There was nothing wrong with being a homebody. There was nothing wrong with not wanting - not nee...
CHARLES DE LINT One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the m...
CHARLES DE LINT I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same ti...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that y...
CHARLES DE LINT Stars are cracks of light for night than pierces the heart. (Étoiles sont fissures de lumière - De...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a stron...
CHARLES DE GAULLE How can one conceive of a one party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheese.
CHARLES DE GAULLE The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.
CHARLES DE LINT How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLE Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything we...
CHARLES DE LINT We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies wi...
CHARLES DE GAULLE How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLE Deliberation is the function of the many; action is the function of one.
CHARLES DE GAULLE