Top 20 Quotes by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

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

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.

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

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

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

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.

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