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
There is one person that is wiser than anybody, and that is everybody.
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.
Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.
In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.
A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.
Politics is the systematic cultivation of hatred.
Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.