Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Political Quotations

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

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

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.