Quotes from Charles Maurice de Talleyrand


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

    Cease | Explaining | Shall


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

    Master | Merit | Masters


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

    Shadow | Reputation | Follows


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

    Dinner | Hour | Pleasure


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

    Shadow | Reputation | Follows


    A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.

    Court | Noble | Assembly


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

    Crime | Creates


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

    Political | Crime | Clever


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

    War | Men | Military


    Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

    Good | Mistrust | Impulses


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

    Love | Hell | Devil


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

    Good | Water | Fishing


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

    Lion | Army | Sheep


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

    Freedom | Government | Press


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

    Love | Great | Hero


    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.

    Woman | Shame | Bold


    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.

    Fool | Succeed | Clever


    Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

    Thoughts | Speech | Disguise


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

    Art | Inevitable | Foresee


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

    Easy | Facts | Masses


       

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