Charles Maurice De Talleyrand Quotes

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

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

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

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

Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters. - Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another. - Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

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