Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgordʁɑ̃ peʁiɡɔʁ]; 1754–1838), prince de Bénévent, then prince de Talleyrand, was a French bishop, politician and diplomat. After theology studies, he became in 1780 Agent-General of the Clergy and represented the Catholic Church to the French Crown. He worked at the highest levels of successive French governments, most commonly as foreign minister or in some other diplomatic capacity. His career spanned the regimes of Louis XVI, the years of the French Revolution, Napoleon, Louis XVIII, and Louis-Philippe...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionDiplomat
Date of Birth2 February 1754
CountryFrance
Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait.
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.
A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself.
A married man with a family will do anything for money.
It is not an event; it is a piece of news.
Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living and cannot imagine what it was like to have happiness in life.
It is the beginning of the end. [Fr., C'est le commencement de al fin.]
The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all.
Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.
Those who did not live during the years close to 1789 do not know the pleasure of living.
Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.