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
If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.
What I have been taught, I have forgotten; what I know, I have guessed.
I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce.
Wherever there's trouble, look for a priest.
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.
In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.
A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.
Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.
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.
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.
She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.
An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public.
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.