59 Quotes by Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.