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.

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for.

Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.