Diplomat Quotes

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. (Robert Frost)

A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.

Peter Ustinov

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

Joseph Stalin

[After college] I was going to study at the Sorbon and become a diplomat. Being a diplomat comes in handy when you are dealing with record companies.

Gloria Estefan

Only men of considerable vanity write books; consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more easily purchased diplomat.

John Kenneth Galbraith

I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.

Oswald Spengler

I'm a diplomat by nature. I help find the middle ground. I crack a joke and use humour to help resolve potentially vicious situations quickly. It gets things in perspective and helps everyone to see that things aren't as bad as they seem.

Ron Wood

I was never the diplomatic diplomat.

Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.

Fay Godwin

Michael Anthony is the Diplomat of Rock N Roll. He is the regular guy.

Gary Cherone

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. (Caskie Stinnett)

A diplomat had been kidnapped, a cabinet minister had been kidnapped, they were under threats of murder. The police forces were rather tired. After a whole week, we were unable to find those that had effected the kidnappings.

Robert Bourassa

A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it.

Trygve Lie

My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.

Walter Salles

The art of a diplomat is to conceal all turbulence behind his smile.

Mohammad Javad Zarif

All ideological differences set apart, I cannot help having a sincere admiration for Mr Brezhnev. He is to all appearances an outstanding diplomat. He abides by the policy of peaceful co-existence as laid down by the Helsinki agreement. And he has succeeded in making his country as powerful as it is today: the first nuclear power in the world, soon to be he first maritime power; as for the land and air forces, their superiority is so great that it bears no comparison.

Muhammad Reza Pahlavi

A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.

Edward Heath

But now that war has become seemingly total and seemingly permanent, the free sport of kings has become the forced and internecine business of people, and diplomatic codes of honor between nations have collapsed. Peace is no longer serious; only war is serious. Every man and every nation is either friend or foe, and the idea of enmity becomes mechanical, massive, and without genuine passion. When virtually all negotiation aimed at peaceful agreement is likely to be seen as 'appeasement,' if not treason, the active role of the diplomat becomes meaningless; for diplomacy becomes merely a prelude to war or an interlude between wars, and in such a context the diplomat is replaced by the warlord......In other words 'the morale of the State Department is so broken that its finest men flee from it, and advise others to flee.'.

C. Wright Mills

He was, after all, a diplomat, and understood that the best and firmest deals are based on open self-interest.

David Brin

With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain.

Arabella Weir

At which a diplomat from France replies: «The war? I can't find it too terrible! The death of one man: that is a catastrophe. One hundred thousand deaths: that is a statistic!») (Kurt Tucholsky)

During my imprisonment in the Soviet Union, I often heard of an imprisoned Swedish diplomat who had been active in Budapest. The Russian authorities were said to have accused him of espionage for the Germans.

Wilhelm Mohnke

Advised a young diplomat "to tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound his enemies."

Henry Wotton

I thought I was going to grow up and become a diplomat and negotiate nuclear arms.

Timothy D. Snyder

For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.

Vikas Swarup

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