Quote: Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man. [Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord]
Quote: 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-Perigord]
Quote: Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters. [Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord]
Quote: Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord]
Quote: Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime. [Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord]
Quote: 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-Perigord]
Quote: 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-Perigord]
Quote: 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-Perigord]
Quote: Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government. [Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord]
Quote: Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love. [Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord]
Quote: Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love. [Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord]
Quote: 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-Perigord]
Quote: What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits. [Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord]
Quote: Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts. [Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord]
Quote: A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars. [Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord]
Quote: 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. [Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord]
Quote: Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France. [Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord]
Quote: Nothing succeeds so well as success. [Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord]
Quote: Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters. [Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord]
Quote: Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord]
Quote: I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion. [Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord]
Quote: In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily. [Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord]
Quote: It is not an event; it is a piece of news. [Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord]
Quote: It is the beginning of the end.
[Fr., C'est le commencement de al fin.] [Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord]
Quote: The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all. [Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord]