Diplomat Quotes

"A diplomat these days is nothing but a head waiter who`s allowed to sit down occasionally"

(answering the bad reviews he got on his last movie, A Countess from Hong Kong (1967)) If they don`t like it, they are bloody idiots. A diplomat falls in love with a prostitute - what better story can they get than that?

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat`s daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.

To me, as a professional diplomat, I always consider the substance to be more important than the face.

My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood.

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

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.

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.

A diplomat must always think twice before he says nothing.

Right, well I am, I was a career diplomat for 37 years from 1960 until 1997 during the early 1980s from 1981 to 1985 I was the United States Ambassador to Honduras.

We inherited a site with a large, bunker-like structure and made every attempt to weave it into the narrative of the project. The lower portion of the building, with its militaristic past, represents the first portion of Rabin`s life as a warrior. The upper portion of the building, with its mission of education, its expansive views, and symbolic dove`s wings, represents the diplomat and mediator that he became.

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.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman`s birthday but never remembers her age.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman`s birthday but never remembers her age.

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