Diplomat Quotes

“This can only be an urgent call at this late hour.”
― Karl Braungart, Fatal Identity

“Paul Remmich is going to do something special before moving to Cuba. He will have to sign a legal agreement protecting him to work for Iraq as an independent diplomat.”
― Karl Braungart, Counter Identity

“It wasn’t until I noticed two of the words on the sheet printed on a folder label. Sure enough, it was Williams’ study titled ‘Nuclear Waste Management.”
― Karl Braungart, Fatal Identity

“I realized he was on the island when I found this matchbook.”
― Karl Braungart, Counter Identity

“I got the pictures with the names, and they match the passport photos and names from Madrid. How did you get the manager to help?”
― Karl Braungart, Fatal Identity

“  “Yes, well, I thought you should see it. The cover page is in Arabic scribblin’, but the next hundred-plus pages are in five sections, and in English. I can’t for the life of me figure out what to make of it. This appears to be more American, and it seems to be a kind of scientific material. Have a look at it and let me know what to tell the boys in Z-land,”
― Karl Braungart, Fatal Identity

“My friend is not a diplomat. She is the failure of diplomacy. She is the breakdown of negotiations. There is no escalation of hostilities beyond her.”
― F.C. Yee, The Shadow of Kyoshi

“These, then, are the qualities of my ideal diplomatist. Truth, accuracy, calm, patience, good temper, modesty and loyalty. They are also the qualities of an ideal diplomacy. But, the reader may object, you have forgotten intelligence, knowledge, discernment, prudence, hospitality, charm, industry, courage and even tact. I have not forgotten them. I have taken them for granted.”
― Harold Nicolson

“A well-trained diplomat is supposed to write French, for example, like an angel, but to speak it with the peculiar gutlessness of a Geneva nancy-boy.”
― Geoffrey Household, Rogue Male

“It might seem that being a genius is a golden ticket to a life of glamorous soirees with the intellectual elite, champagne flute in hand, arm candy at your side, surrounded by a throng of smiling sycophants. But you might be confusing this scene with the lifestyle of a diplomat”
― André de Guillaume, How to Be a Genius: A Handbook for the Aspiring Smarty-Pants

“He had sinewy arms that were often wrapped in fine silk robes. He liked closed-toed, black leather sandals with hard soles that echoed with each step.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“An ambassador is an honest man who is sent to lie abroad for the good of his Country” [“Legatus est vir bonus peregre missus ad mentiendum Reipublicae causa”], 1600s

H. Nicolson argues that “H. Wotton scribbled this remark as a joke in [friend's] album at Augsburg”.”
― Sir Henry Wotton

“An ambassador is someone who thinks twice before he says nothing” -

attributed to one of India's ambassadors in Argentina at the time.”
― Tony Leon, The Accidental Ambassador

“Diplomat does not mean nice,” muttered the spider mech. “Diplomat means tell the aliens to leave us alone.”
― Ann Leckie, Provenance

“Let's not freak out here," Jett said, ever the diplomat in venom green nail polish and little skull earrings. "People aren't going to come until they've had their dinner. Pie is for dessert."
Maggie and I stood behind the counter, arms folded, and stared out the display window.
Jett shook her head. Leave it to her to be remarkably upbeat while the rest of us were uncharacteristically morose. "Maybe we should open up so that this wonderful pie aroma brings them in," she said brightly. She opened the door and used it to fan the pie air out onto the street.
And it worked.
Somebody walked in.”
― Judith Fertig, The Memory of Lemon

“A mousy, middle-aged man with a clean robe and a stony half smile stood among them. He held parchment and an inkwell with two hands and somehow made them look heavy.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“Tozl was an agent of the state without any real agency—a silk-clad servant smiling his way to the center of the vortex.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.”
― Edward Heath

“All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.”
― Napoleon Hill

“Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey catches more flies than a gallon of vinegar.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“He kissed me and now I am someone else.”
― Gabriela Mistral