Talleyrand Perigord Quotes & Sayings

Welcome to the land where Christmas threw up. — Gayle Forman

So we must buck up, put on a kind face, and get on with it. — David Levithan

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

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

Sidda can't help herself. She just loves books. Loves the way they feel, the way they smell, loves the black letters marching across the white pages ... — Rebecca Wells

Ask yourself always: how can this be done better? — Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

Maybe if I put gardenias in both ears, or wore flippers over both hands, somebody might take a second look. But that'd be it. They'd put it all behind them after three steps. Their eyes not looking at anything. Nor my eyes. I felt emptied out, a blank. Would I ever again have anything to give to anyone? — Haruki Murakami

You can't be said to have properly established yourself in a place until you have been seen there. — Gregory Maguire

Tell me there's a chance you could be wrong.
"If there were the slightest chance i could spare you from the pain, I would taken."
And its this-his sincerity-that finally snaps me in half. Because the truth is so unbearable I wish he'd spare me a lie. — Tahereh Mafi

Write like no one is reading. — Crystal Woods

- 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

Say did you read in the papers about a bunch of Women up in British Columbia as a protest against high taxes, sit out in the open naked, and they wouldent put their clothes on? The authorities finally turned a Sprayer that you use on trees, on 'em. That may lead into quite a thing. Woman comes into the tax office nude, saying I won't pay. Well they can't search her and get anything. It sounds great. How far is it to British Columbia? — Will Rogers

I haven't made art about Israel. There's a covert subtext of Jewish identity in my artwork. — Jill Soloway

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

Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult. — Louis Leakey

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

It is not that accepting and rejecting are great actions within themselves. But the right to accept or reject, now that is everything. — Joshua Emmet

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

You are mine, Dawn. Never forget that. I won't share your body, or space in your thoughts, with another man. — Laurann Dohner

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

I am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium. — John Malkovich