Diplomats Quotes

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Ah, these diplomats! What chatterboxes! There's only one way to shut them up - cut them down with machine guns. Bulganin, go and get me one!

We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.

Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest thing in the nicest way.

Make it plain that you have no time for war, that you have more important things to do....let the diplomats and marshals of the earth shoot each other.

All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

The real secret about diplomats is that we're trained to say something, when there is nothing to say, and to say nothing when there is something to say.

The basic quality for the diplomat is not intelligence but loyalty.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.

Michael Anthony is the Diplomat of Rock N Roll. He is the regular guy.

It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them.

Even when I was at CIA, I'd go to visit foreign leaders and I'd say, 'You know, I'm not a diplomat. I'm just an old CIA guy'... I said, 'If I wanted to be diplomatic, I'd have been a diplomat.'

American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet.

How do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, then believe what they read.

I was never the diplomatic diplomat.

A diplomat these days is nothing but a head waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.

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.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going, when they seem going they come: diplomats, women, and crabs.

The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.

A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it.

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

Timing: The alpha and omega of aerialists, jugglers, actors, diplomats, publicists, generals, prizefighters, revolutionists, financiers, dictators, lovers.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

There are no innocents in Gaza, don't let any diplomats who want to look good in the world endanger your lives - mow them down!

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

God, a born extremist, is the diplomat's worst enemy. Quite apart from the fact that His decrees are irrevocable, the Absolute will not allow anyone to relativize matters.

Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.

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

I have to be as much diplomat as a photographer.

A skilled diplomat rarely generates extreme reactions.

My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood.

People also don't care about the daily comings and goings of diplomats and yet we must report it.

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

Out in the world I go! Muggers! Autograph hounds! Junkies! People with real jobs! Maybe an easy lay! United Nation functionaries and diplomats!

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they become diplomats.

Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war.

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

Show me one Iranian diplomat we killed! I can show you many Saudi diplomats who were killed by Iran.

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