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Quotes by Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand

A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.
– 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
Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
– Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand
Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.
– Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand
Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.
– 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
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
Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.
– Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
– Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand
The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
– Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand
This is the beginning of the end.
– 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
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.
– Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand
Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.
– Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand
Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.
– Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand