Charles Maurice de Talleyrand famous quotes
Last updated: Jul 22, 2024
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What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.
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Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.
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Nothing succeeds so well as success.
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Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.
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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.
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Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.
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Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.
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I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce.
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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.
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A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.
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Those who did not live during the years close to 1789 do not know the pleasure of living.
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Regimes may fall and fail, but I do not.
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Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.
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Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
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The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all.
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The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
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Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.
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Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.
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She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.
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Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.
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A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.
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Suave molecules of Mocha stir up your blood, without causing excess heat; the organ of thought receives from it a feeling of sympathy; work becomes easier and you will sit down without distress to your principal repast which will restore your body and afford you a calm, delicious night.
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Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.
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Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.
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There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift.
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In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply from happening to be there.
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War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.
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It is not an event; it is a piece of news.
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In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.
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The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
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Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa pensee.]
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Love is a reality which is born in the fairy region of romance.
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Whoever did not live in the years neighboring 1789 does not know what the pleasure of living means. [Fr., Qui n'a pas vecu dans les annees voisines de 1789 ne sait pas ce que c'est le palisir de vivre.]
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Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait.
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Methods are the masters of masters.
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It is the beginning of the end. [Fr., C'est le commencement de al fin.]
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I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.
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A married man with a family will do anything for money.
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Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject.
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An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public.
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If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.
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A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself.
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