Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour. – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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
Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man. – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts. – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits. – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters. – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence. – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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
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
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime. – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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
Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government. – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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
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
