I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro.
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.
Right after Secretary [Rex] Tillerson was sworn in, four of the top career diplomats at the department were told their services were no longer needed.
The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
Having wallowed in a delightful orgy of anti-French sentiment, having deplored and applauded the villains themselves, having relished the foibles of bankers, railwaymen, diplomats, and police, the public was now ready to see its faith restored in the basic soundness of banks, railroads, government, and police.
Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth
Ive worked as a diplomat before I became a politician.
I must say I've rarely been described as 'diplomat.
The sexual organs are the most sensitive organs of the human being. They are not diplomats. They tell the truth.
Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.
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.
Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? 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.
Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely.
The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.
Liberals and international diplomats (a distinction without a difference) have notorious difficulty understanding how to deal with totalitarian regimes.
Foreign diplomats could have modeled their conduct on the way the Negro postmen, Pullman porters, and dining car waiters of Roxbury [Massachusetts] acted, striding around as if they were wearing top hats and cutaways.
I have so much respect for policy makers and diplomats, but I could never be a politician because of the way they dress!
It looks like the financial giants of the world have bungled as much as the diplomats and politicians. This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something.
My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood.
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.
