What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
What I have been taught, I have forgotten; what I know, I have guessed. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share
Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share
Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share
God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share
Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living and cannot… — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share
If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share
An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share
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 Copy Share
I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share
War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share
There is one person that is wiser than anybody, and that is everybody. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share
Suave molecules of Mocha stir up your blood, without causing excess heat; the organ of thought receives from it a feeling of sympathy; work… — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share
Those who did not live during the years close to 1789 do not know the pleasure of living. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share
