Diplomat Quotes

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.

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

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.

In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk.

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

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.

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

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

I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person's shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.

My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as a diplomat at the American embassy. My parents were enthusiastic about the move, so my older brother and I felt like we were off to some place kind of cool.

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

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

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.

I'm simply saying that there are advantages in sending a skilled diplomat who can always say, 'I'll get back to you on that, Mr. Minister'.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I was never the diplomatic diplomat.