Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes

» I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

» A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.

» Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

» Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

» Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

» The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

» 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.

» She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

» Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.

» Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

» Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

» The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

» Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

» 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.

» War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

» If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

» Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.

» Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

» What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

» Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

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