Talleyrand Quotes

“It seems that after the age of eighty all contemporaries are friends.”
― Duff Cooper, Talleyrand

“At every epoch,’ he wrote, ‘there is some good to be done or some harm to hinder; that is why, if one loves his country, one can, and in my opinion one ought to, serve it under all the Governments that it adopts.”
― Duff Cooper, Talleyrand

“To obtain the admiration of women is the ambition of most men, and those who achieve it easily are apt to believe that their success is in some way a proof of their intelligence, forgetting that it is not always intellectual superiority that makes the strongest claim on feminine regard.”
― Duff Cooper, Talleyrand

“the greatest danger in times of crisis comes from the zeal of people who are inexperienced.”
― Duff Cooper, Talleyrand

“Revolution is a symptom of grave political disease, and, unfortunately, it is contagious.”
― Duff Cooper, Talleyrand

“The losses that befall me every day attach me the more to the people that I love.”
― Duff Cooper, Talleyrand