There are three roads to ruin: by gambling, which is the quickest; through women, which is the most pleasurable; and through taking the advice of experts, which is the most certain.

I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

In the name of policy, change your friends.

To General Jacques Massu : Alors Massu, toujours aussi con ? (So, Massu, still that stupid?)

'Is that wise, darling? Remember you have to reign all afternoon.'

I couldn't do them if I didn't know horses lived behind them.

Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it.