"Love of glory can only create a great……" — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man."
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Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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36 Quotes by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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Suave molecules of Mocha stir up your blood, without causing excess heat; the organ of thought receives from it a…
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Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.
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Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.
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Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.
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In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.
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It is not an event; it is a piece of news.
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War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.
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In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a…
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There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or…
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Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.
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The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
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To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool,…
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More Contempt Quotes
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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the…
— Carl Bernstein
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The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.
— Jello Biafra
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Familiarity breeds contempt.
— Aesop
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I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books.…
— Michael Bloomberg
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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others,…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law;…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love.…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.
— Cesar Chavez
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There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten…
— Lord Chesterfield
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If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days…
— Lord Chesterfield
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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
— Winston Churchill
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