In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply from happening to be there. — 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 Image
Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
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 Image
Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
