Diplomats Quotes - Page 2

A skilled diplomat rarely generates extreme reactions.

Originally I wanted to be a diplomat, and by attrition I started giving up that idea.

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

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

Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.

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.

My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood.

I have to be as much diplomat as a photographer.

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.

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.

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

My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism - certainly not politics.

I discovered that a diplomat's life is largely entertaining and meeting people. At the end of the day there's nothing. So I gave up.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Diplomats negotiate. That's what I do on my show. So I consider myself a diplomat in showbiz.

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

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.

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

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

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