French Quotes

I could say that making clothes is my way of communicating, because I was always so shy.

I am very lucky because I am realizing my childhood dreams, and after presenting my shows it's like a party.

Fashion is not art. Never.

Fashion is about what you look like, which translates to what you would like to be like.

Doing fashion drawings was the only way I had to express myself when I was a teenager.

Clothes are expensive. You have to buy them, and to buy them, you have to believe in them.

Always my collections are made of different influences.

You see me, I wanted to be fashion designer. I became fashion designer. So I think that everything is possible.

I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.

I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life.

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

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

Old age is a shipwreck.

You'll live. Only the best get killed.

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

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

China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.