“Old age is a shipwreck.”

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.

Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.

For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.

France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.

The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.

Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.

I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.

I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.

We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.

A boy and a girl, dressed in the T-shirts and denim that are the shabby uniform of this age.

You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.

All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Dissents speak to a future age.

We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.

Age is a hell of a price to pay for wisdom.

When I turned 60, it didn’t bother me at all.