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Famous Quotes by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Famous quotes made by the French statesmam and diplomat, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand. He was born on February 2, 1754 in Paris and died on May 17, 1838.

He thinks he is deaf because he no longer hears himself talked about.

It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder.

What I have been taught, I have forgotten; what I know, I have guessed.

Never speak ill of yourself; your friends will always say enough on that subject.

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.

Don't trust first impulses - they are always good.

She is intolerable, but that is her only fault.

A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.

Such a good friend that she will throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.

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How I should like to distil my disesteem of my contemporaries into prose so perfect that all of them would have to read it!

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