Diplomats Quotations

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

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

We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

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

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.

It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.

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.

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.'

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

My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood.

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

I must say I've rarely been described as 'diplomat.

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro.

The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.

My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer

Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

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.

Ive worked as a diplomat before I became a politician.

The basic quality for the diplomat is not intelligence but loyalty.

In the end, the work of diplomats continues even while others fight. So, it's not necessarily true that everyone needs to march.

Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth

I have so much respect for policy makers and diplomats, but I could never be a politician because of the way they dress!

I was never the diplomatic diplomat.

I have to be as much diplomat as a photographer.

Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely.

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

Most other documents leaked to WikiLeaks do not carry the same explosive potential as candid cables written by American diplomats.

The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.

Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest thing in the nicest way.

The sexual organs are the most sensitive organs of the human being. They are not diplomats. They tell the truth.

[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.

Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.

Diplomats lie with a heavy sense of destiny.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

Timing: The alpha and omega of aerialists, jugglers, actors, diplomats, publicists, generals, prizefighters, revolutionists, financiers, dictators, lovers.

The real secret about diplomats is that we're trained to say something, when there is nothing to say, and to say nothing when there is something to say.

There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going, when they seem going they come: diplomats, women, and crabs.

But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .

I'd like to think the best bunker buster is a diplomat.

A Duke couldn't have the arse hanging out of his trousers when meeting foreign diplomats. Actually even plain old Sam Vimes never had the arse hanging out of his trousers, either, but no one would have actually started a war if he had.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

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.

Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they become diplomats.

People also don't care about the daily comings and goings of diplomats and yet we must report it.

Diplomats do not know how to negotiate, they only know how to keep their job.

The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten

I am a soldier and accustomed to risking my life every day. I am full of the fire of youth; I cannot act with the restraint of an accomplished diplomat.

The [Carter] administration doesn't know the difference between a diplomat and a doormat.

Diplomacy, of course, is a subtle and nuanced craft, so much so that it's said that when the most wily diplomat of the nineteenth-century passed away, other diplomats asked, on reports of his death, "What do you suppose the old fox meant by that?

An American diplomat is sometimes like a bull who carries his own china shop around with him.