Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes
"Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour."
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
(Related: Day, Pleasure)
"War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men."
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
(Related: Men, War, Military)
"A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars."
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
(Related: Court)
"To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man."
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
(Related: Fool, Man, Succeed, World)
"Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government."
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
(Related: Government, Freedom, Press)
"The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows."
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
(Related: Man, Reputation, Shadow)
"The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for."
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
(Related: Blush, Defiance, Shame, Woman)
"The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence."
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
(Related: Art, Statesmanship)
"Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts."
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
(Related: Thoughts, Disguise, Man, Speech)
"Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts."
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
(Related: Facts, Nothing)
"What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits."
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
(Related: Crime, Man)
"Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows."
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
(Related: Reputation, Shadow)
"Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good."
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
(Related: First, Impulses, Mistrust)
"Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters."
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
(Related: Merit)
"Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man."
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
(Related: Love, Contempt, Glory, Man)
"If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another."
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love."
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
(Related: Love, Devil, Hell)
"I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep."
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
(Related: Army, Sheep)
"She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again."
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
(Related: Friend, Fishing, Pleasure, Water)