Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes & Sayings

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20 most famous Charles Maurice de Talleyrand quotes and sayings (diplomat). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes
“Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.”
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes
“Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.”
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes
“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 Quotes
“Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.”
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes
“Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.”
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes
“The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.”
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes
“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 Quotes
“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 Quotes
“What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.”
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes
“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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