Contempt Quote by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Download Open image “Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.” — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contempt Glory Great man Hero Love
The greatest glory never comes from winning, but from rising each time you fall. A person is defined by what he chooses to do… — Clay Aiken Copy Share Image
“True glory lies in the pro-creation and re-enactment of virtuous heroism through meaning.” — VD Copy Share Image
We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
All glory is fleeting. And, If you do not love what you do, don't do it. — Ronnie Screwvala Copy Share Image
Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare. — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Glory is a often praised thing because of the way it makes people feel, but Glory is for the weak hearted and actions based… — Kevan Langley Copy Share Image
“No greater glory, no greater honor, is the lot of man departing than a feeling possessed deep in his heart that the world is… — Robert Abbott Copy Share Image
The love of glory, the fear of disgrace, the incentive to succeed, the desire to live in comfort, and the instinct to humiliate others… — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Popular glory is a perfect coquette; her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted into the… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Glory is not a conceit. It is not a decoration for valor. Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than… — John McCain Copy Share Image
One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it. — Diana Wynne Jones 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
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Our security depends on having good relationships with our allies. Donald Trump mainly shows contempt for them. — Paul Wolfowitz Copy Share Image
There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things; it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Somebody once told me that if you laugh at a George Bush joke, or you send an email cartoon to your friends that makes… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself down to be trampled… — Mark the Evangelist Copy Share Image
Much of the same sort of degraded and filthy talk can still be heard among the orc-minded; dreary and repetitive with hatred and contempt,… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
Every person of any rank in the left, from voter on up to cabinet member to elected official in the Democrat Party, has contempt.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image