Quotes
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Charles Talleyrand : Now you cast aspersions on my honor?
Napoléon : Honor? You? You have no honor. You're a scoundrel.
Charles Talleyrand : Sire, when a point is exaggerated, it becomes meaningless.
Napoléon : That's what you have just become. Meaningless.
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Napoléon : How do you know what's on his mind? I'm closer to Alexander than you are. He's like a brother to me now.
Charles Talleyrand : Cain was a brother to Abel, sire.
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Joseph Fouché : All we need is you now, Talleyrand, to complete the party.
Charles Talleyrand : The conspiracy, you mean? Or, in a word, the treason?
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Charles Talleyrand : It's a pity that such a great man should have such bad manners.
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Charles Talleyrand : Making arrangements that contradict the emperor's wishes is called treason.
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Charles Talleyrand : Well, Marquis, how is this little mission of ours going? We've prepared the ground successfully, I hope?
Marquis de Caulaincourt : Well, I've been preparing balls, concerts, banquets, hunting parties, firework displays... The Emperor wants to dazzle the Czar with a display of his power. His Majesty says nothing helps negotiations more, especially with a man as civilized as Alexander.
Charles Talleyrand : Yes, well, the sovereign of Russia may very well be civilized, but his people are not. In France, of course, it's the other way round.
