"I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a……" — Napoleon Bonaparte
"I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it."
More Appearance Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from… — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles -… — Richard Armitage
- Every silver lining has a cloud. — Mary Kay Ash
- Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist… — Saint Augustine
- Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect… — Jane Austen
- High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when… — Joseph Barbera
- I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught… — Douglas Bader
- Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more… — Roseanne Barr