Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.