Joseph Fouché 1759 or 1763- John Bartlett, comp. 1919. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.

John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

Joseph Fouché (1759 or 1763–)

“It is more than a crime; it is a political fault,” 1 —words which I record, because they have been repeated and attributed to others.

Memoirs of Fouché.

Death is an eternal sleep.

Inscription placed by his orders on the Gates of the Cemeteries in 1794.

Note 1.
Commonly quoted, “It is worse than a crime,—it is a blunder,” and attributed to Talleyrand. [back]