Famous Quotes / Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
8 Quotations by Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
- 1. I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.
- 2. Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
- 3. Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.
- 4. One's reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion wh ...
- 5. She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure ...
- 6. Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.
- 7. The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proporti ...
- 8. Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.