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

- Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce.

- Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

- Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

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

- Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

- Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

Politics is the systematic cultivation of hatred.

- Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.

- Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.

- Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.

- Charles Maurice De Talleyrand