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[After college] I was going to study at the Sorbon and become a diplomat. Being a diplomat comes in handy when you are dealing with record companies.
— Gloria Estefan
An American diplomat is sometimes like a bull who carries his own china shop around with him.
— Winston Churchill
Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
— Madeleine Albright
I was never the diplomatic diplomat.
— Adolfo Aguilar Zinser
A diplomat who says "yes" means "maybe", a diplomat who says "maybe" means "no", and a diplomat who says "no" is no diplomat.
— Charles Maurice De Talleyrand-Perigord
The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
— Franz Grillparzer
My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.
— Arabella Weir
You use to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat, who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat.
— Bob Dylan
There's a reason I'm not a diplomat,' I said, 'I'm better at stabbing things than negotiation.'" - Ivy Lane
— Emma L. Adams
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'.
— Theodore C. Sorensen
A diplomat ... is not worthy of the name unless he can say 'no' and make the other person like it - or at least not be offended by it.
— Margery Wilson
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
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
— Robert Frost
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
I have to be as much diplomat as a photographer.
— Alfred Eisenstaedt
His mother's father had been a diplomat, an architect of fortunes; his father's father had been an architect, a diplomat of styles.
— Maggie Stiefvater
When a diplomat says 'yes' he means 'maybe.' When a diplomat says 'maybe' he means 'no.' But if a diplomat says 'no' he's no diplomat.
— Alan Furst
I must say I've rarely been described as 'diplomat.'
— Richard Armitage
Send a patroller to check," said Miles a little tightly. Remembering he was supposed to be a diplomat, he added, "If you please." Teris
— Lois McMaster Bujold
A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.
— Edward Heath
No wonder this man was a diplomat. You couldn't trust him an inch, he thought in loops, and you couldn't help liking him despite it.
— Terry Pratchett
A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it.
— Trygve Lie
My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.
— Kathleen Turner
Show me one Iranian diplomat we killed! I can show you many Saudi diplomats who were killed by Iran.
— Adel Al-Jubeir
My advice to any diplomat who wants to have good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.
— Carl T. Rowan
Madman drummers, bummers, Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat. In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat.
— Bruce Springsteen
Originally I wanted to be a diplomat, and by attrition I started giving up that idea.
— John Gimlette
The [Carter] administration doesn't know the difference between a diplomat and a doormat.
— Ronald Reagan
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.
— Caskie Stinnett
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
attributed to one of India's ambassadors in Argentina at the time. — Tony Leon
Mexican writer and diplomat, "Pasado en claro" ("A Draft of Shadows") You learn something the day you die. You learn how to die.
— Katherine Anne Porter
Who's an ex-diplomat of all people to complain if the wrapping is prettier than what's inside?
— John Le Carre
I've worked as a diplomat before I became a politician.
— David Cunliffe
Diplomats negotiate. That's what I do on my show. So I consider myself a diplomat in showbiz.
— Woody Milintachinda
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.
— Wentworth Miller
A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
— Peter Ustinov
The basic quality for the diplomat is not intelligence but loyalty.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.
— Walter Salles
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.
— Arabella Weir
I'd like to think the best bunker buster is a diplomat.
— Scott Ritter
A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
— Joseph Stalin
The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war.
— Will Rogers
A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip.
— Caskie Stinnett
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