59 Quotes by Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject.

Whoever did not live in the years neighboring 1789 does not know what the pleasure of living means. [Fr., Qui n'a pas vecu dans les annees voisines de 1789 ne sait pas ce que c'est le palisir de vivre.]

There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift.

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa pensee.]

Suave molecules of Mocha stir up your blood, without causing excess heat; the organ of thought receives from it a feeling of sympathy; work becomes easier and you will sit down without distress to your principal repast which will restore your body and afford you a calm, delicious night.

Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.

The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.

Methods are the masters of masters.

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.