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
The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all.
A married man with a family will do anything for money.
Those who did not live during the years close to 1789 do not know the pleasure of living.
I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce.
A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself.
If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.
Wherever there's trouble, look for a priest.
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.
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
It is the beginning of the end. [Fr., C'est le commencement de al fin.]
Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.
If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.