Diplomats famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I was never the diplomatic diplomat.
-- Adolfo Aguilar Zinser -
If a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. If he says perhaps he means no. And if he says no, he's the hell of a diplomat.
-- Agnes Sligh Turnbull -
I have to be as much diplomat as a photographer.
-- Alfred Eisenstaedt -
Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely.
-- Anne Rice -
Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth
-- Arthur Goldberg -
In the end, the work of diplomats continues even while others fight. So, it's not necessarily true that everyone needs to march.
-- David Brin -
Ive worked as a diplomat before I became a politician.
-- David Cunliffe -
Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.
-- David Lloyd George -
A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.
-- Edward Heath -
Most other documents leaked to WikiLeaks do not carry the same explosive potential as candid cables written by American diplomats.
-- Evgeny Morozov -
If all the diplomats were kicked out, the UN could be turned into the finest bordello in the world and do just as much, if not more, for international harmony.
-- F. Paul Wilson -
Michael Anthony is the Diplomat of Rock N Roll. He is the regular guy.
-- Gary Cherone -
[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 -
There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going, when they seem going they come: diplomats, women, and crabs.
-- John Hay -
It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.
-- John Keegan -
My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood.
-- Kurtis Blow -
Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.
-- Margaret Sanger -
Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.
-- Margaret Sanger -
a diplomat ... is not worthy of the name unless he can say 'no' and make the other person like it - or at least not be offended by it.
-- Margery Wilson -
Timing: The alpha and omega of aerialists, jugglers, actors, diplomats, publicists, generals, prizefighters, revolutionists, financiers, dictators, lovers.
-- Marlene Dietrich -
Liberals and international diplomats (a distinction without a difference) have notorious difficulty understanding how to deal with totalitarian regimes.
-- Mona Charen -
It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them.
-- Paul Claudel -
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer
-- Peter Ustinov -
A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
-- Peter Ustinov -
God, a born extremist, is the diplomat's worst enemy. Quite apart from the fact that His decrees are irrevocable, the Absolute will not allow anyone to relativize matters.
-- Regis Debray -
I must say I've rarely been described as 'diplomat.
-- Richard Armitage -
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 -
Even when I was at CIA, I'd go to visit foreign leaders and I'd say, 'You know, I'm not a diplomat. I'm just an old CIA guy'... I said, 'If I wanted to be diplomatic, I'd have been a diplomat.'
-- Robert M. Gates -
I'd like to think the best bunker buster is a diplomat.
-- Scott Ritter -
A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it.
-- Trygve Lie -
It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.
-- Wentworth Miller -
Diplomats negotiate. That's what I do on my show. So I consider myself a diplomat in showbiz.
-- Woody Milintachinda -
When a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. When he says perhaps, he means no. When he says no, he is not a diplomat. When a lady says no, she means perhaps. When she says perhaps, she means yes. But when she says yes, she is no lady.
-- Alfred Denning, Baron Denning -
I have so much respect for policy makers and diplomats, but I could never be a politician because of the way they dress!
-- Azita Ghanizada -
Originally I wanted to be a diplomat, and by attrition I started giving up that idea.
-- John Gimlette -
I am sure you have met diplomats; they probably travel far less than you do. Okay, they get to know a place very intensely - sometimes only the capitol city.
-- John Gimlette -
Show me one Iranian diplomat we killed! I can show you many Saudi diplomats who were killed by Iran.
-- Adel al-Jubeir -
People also don't care about the daily comings and goings of diplomats and yet we must report it.
-- Roone Arledge -
I'd trained to be a diplomat but the state department said I was too liberal. I saw an ad in the New York Times ... a hack Californian editor came to New York to butcher some films and he needed an assistant. For some reason I read it that day and it changed my life. I went to work for him and he was horrible, butchering these masterpieces by Antonioni, Visconti, but I learned enough to know what he was doing wrong.
-- Thelma Schoonmaker
