Perigord Quotes & Sayings

Despite having known him for almost a year, there were a lot of things I still didn't know about Zachary Goode. Like how soap and shampoo could smell so much better on him than anyone else. Like where he went when he wasn't mysteriously showing up at random (and frequently dangerous) points in my life. And, most of all, I didn't know how, when he mentioned the jacket, he made me think about the sweet, romantic part of the night last November when he'd given it to me, and not the terrible, bloody, international-terrorists-are-trying-to-kidnap-me part that came right after — Ally Carter

To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know. — Charles Maurice De Talleyrand-Perigord

The last man on the moon, Gene Cernan, had paused for a final look at the black beauty of the world about him. He had a message to send home before departing. "As I take these last steps from the surface for some time in the future to come, I'd just like to record that America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of tomorrow. And as we leave the moon and Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came, and, God willing, we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind." It's been nearly four decades since he spoke those words. No American, no earth being has yet returned to the moon. Sadly, no one will again for decades to come. — Alan Shepard

He who has not lived in the eighteenth century before the Revolution does not know the sweetness of life and can not imagine that there can be happiness in life. This is the century that has shaped all the conquering arms against this elusive adversary called boredom. Love, Poetry, Music, Theatre, Painting, Architecture, Court, Salons, Parks and Gardens, Gastronomy, Letters, Arts, Science, all contributed to the satisfaction of physical appetites, intellectual and even moral refinement of all pleasures, all the elegance and all the pleasures. The existence was so well filled that if the seventeenth century was the Great Age of glories, the eighteenth was that of indigestion. — Charles Maurice De Talleyrand-Perigord

We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany. — Michel De Montaigne

Speech is the faculty by which men conceal their thoughts. — Charles Maurice De Talleyrand-Perigord

Everybody wants to have intimate conversations, but the smart fellows don't give out, only the fools. The smart fellows talk intimately about the fools, and examine them all over and give them advice. — Saul Bellow

Then again, what seems like nothing in the eyes of the world, when properly valued and put to use, can be among the greatest riches. — Chris Gardner

- We're winning!

- Who is 'we', mon Prince?

- Not a word! I will tell you tomorrow. — Charles Maurice De Talleyrand-Perigord

Non-intervention is a metaphysical idea, indistinguishable in practice from intervention. — Charles Maurice De Talleyrand-Perigord

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A diplomat who says "yes" means "maybe", a diplomat who says "maybe" means "no", and a diplomat who says "no" is no diplomat. — Charles Maurice De Talleyrand-Perigord

For three days, Shandy Gamble had been lying on his back in the Perigord House awaiting the stranger in the black mustache. Nichols, his name was, and if they were ever going to start cattle buying they had better be moving. The season was already late. — Louis L'Amour

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible. — Miguel De Unamuno

You can do anything you like with bayonets, except sit on them. — Charles Maurice De Talleyrand-Perigord

They had learned nothing and forgotten nothing. — Charles Maurice De Talleyrand-Perigord

But I am like the grass, I can not love you. — Ezra Pound

There are no principles, only events. — Charles Maurice De Talleyrand-Perigord