“Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last...” — Charles de Gaulle Quote

“Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last.”

“The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.”

“Old age is a shipwreck.”

“When I was in Class VII, a boy from Class VI came to me with a bunch of roses and said, 'Didi, will you be my Valentine today?'”

“Days of wine and roses laugh and run away, like a child at play.”

“I love roses and I love the smell of them in my room.”