A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.
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.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.