Quotes Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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

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

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

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one anot...

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glor...

Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewa...

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good....

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it pre...

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acqua...

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day a...

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for ...

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts....

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to...

The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her sham...

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it...

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to posses...

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insens...

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

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is ...

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