| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Talleyrand |
| | | A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself. | 1 |
| A court is an assemblage of noble and distinguished beggars. | 2 |
| Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait. | 3 |
| He who cannot feel friendship is alike incapable of love. Let a woman beware of the man who owns that he loves no one but herself. | 4 |
| Love is a reality which is born in the fairy region of romance. | 5 |
| Methods are the masters of masters. | 6 |
| Not too much zeal. | 7 |
| Nothing succeeds so well as success. | 8 |
| Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter. | 9 |
| Speech is a faculty given to man to conceal his thoughts. | 10 |
| The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame,—when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for. | 11 |
| The love of glory can only create a great hero; the contempt of it creates a great man. | 12 |
| The reputation of a man is like his shadow,—gigantic when it precedes him, and pygmy in its proportions when it follows. | 13 |
| The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all. | 14 |
| 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. | 15 |
| Too much sensibility creates unhappiness, too much insensibility creates crime. | 16 | | |
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