23 ordspråk av Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord föddes den
2 februari 1754 och dog den 17 mei
1838 - French statesman
Mer info via Google eller Bing. (America) A country with thirty religions and only one sauce
|
A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.
|
According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.
|
Black as the devil, Hot as hell, Pure as an angel, Sweet as love
|
I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.
|
I find that nonsense, at times, is singularly refreshing
|
In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily
|
Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
|
Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.
|
She is intolerable, but that is her only fault
|
She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again
|
Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.
|
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
|
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
|
The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
|