Diplomat Quotes

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

  

  Robert Frost
  • Age
  • Birthday
  • Remembers

• 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.

  

  Ronnie Wood The Rolling Stones
  • Help
  • Nature
  • Resolve

• I majored in political communications, so I intended to be a diplomat.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Political
  • Diplomat

• He will be able to get them if he lives long enough to do it. He was always a diplomat.

  

  Jack Miller
  • Always
  • Enough
  • Lives

• One day Anton Rieder, my old crush from high school, sat down next to me. He had been fatherless since we were kids. He knew the feeling—the loss of direction, the insecurity, the premature aging. “You are still beautiful,” he said. “And you were always gallant.” “I’ve enrolled at the Consular Academy. I’m going there not because I am so eager to be a diplomat, but because they have given me a scholarship.” “But it will be wonderful for you, Anton. You will be able to travel, maybe even go to England or America.” “Come with me.” “What?” “I know you go with Pepi Rosenfeld, but believe me, he’s too smart for his own good—his brains will always get in the way of his conscience. He’s not fine enough for you. I have always been in love with you; you know that. Leave him and come with me. I have nothing. Now your father is dead, and you have nothing. We’ll be perfect together.” He reached across the library table and took my hand. He was so handsome, so earnest. For a moment, I thought: “Maybe. Why not?” And then of course all the reasons why not spilled onto the long oak table, and Anton could not fail to see them there; and like a wise young diplomat, he rose and kissed my hand and took his leave.

  

  Edith Hahn Beer
  • Kids
  • Travel
  • Direction

• 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.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • My Life
  • Soldier
  • Risking

• I estimate a very conservative number of 25,000 dead homeboys. If 25,000 white people were killed in two decades of urban drive-bys, you could imagine there would be prime time television, there would be counseling, economic packages, truces would be negotiated by diplomats with experience in Northern Ireland or the Balkans.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • People
  • Time
  • Experience

• Words are one thing - deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Different
  • Words
  • Mask

• The journalist, whose main duty is speed, is likely sometimes to get an advantage over the diplomatist whose main object is accuracy.

  

  George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
  • Speed
  • Journalist
  • Accuracy

• A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Water
  • Iron
  • Diplomat

• I've never written a song that's hopeless. I'm not a hopeless person. I'm crazily optimistic. I crazily see the good in people. I crazily see the way out of a terrible situation. I crazily try to be the diplomat. If there are two warring factions in my life, I want them to agree to disagree at the very least.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • Song
  • Optimistic
  • Hopeless

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

  

  Scott Ritter
  • Diplomat
  • Buster

• 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
  • Means
  • Says
  • Diplomat

• A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn.

  

  Arthur Dean
  • Give Up
  • Diplomat
  • Chess Player

• 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
  • Lady
  • Says
  • Diplomat