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
Politics, Forward, Hell

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but

never remembers her age.
Robert Frost
Age, Birthday, Woman

A diplomat had been kidnapped, a cabinet minister had been

kidnapped, they were under threats of murder. The police forces were
rather tired. After a whole week, we were unable to find those that had
effected the kidnappings.
Robert Bourassa
Rather, Tired, Week

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

Joseph Stalin
Water, Sincere, Dry

A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.

Edward Heath
Says, Thinks, Twice

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.
John Keegan
Trouble, Quality, Necessary

And one of the things that I learned was you can't generalise at all
about a woman in a veil. You can't think you know her story, because
she will confound you over and over again. She may be an engineer
or a diplomat or a doctor. Or she may be an unbelievable babe with
bleached hair down to her waist.
Geraldine Brooks
Woman, Again, Learned

I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a

diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person's
shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are
never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.
Madeleine Albright
Yourself, Successful, Understand

A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having
his neighbor notice it.
Trygve Lie
Cut, Neighbor, Notice

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have

to learn to present yourself very early on.
Kathleen Turner
Yourself, Father, Learn

My career was always about working with people, and understanding

issues and problems and helping them to solve those issues and
problems. How you deal with people - that's what diplomacy is all
about. So while I'm not a career diplomat, many of the skills I had
seemed to directly translate into the diplomatic arena.
John Roos
While, Problems, Career

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
Nature, Bad, Help

My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country
to country and culture to culture.
Walter Salles
Life, Father, Culture

Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an

American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958
Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in

photography through photographing my young children. No formal

training.
Fay Godwin
Mother, Father, Artist

In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages,

including doubletalk.
Carey Williams
Speak, Order, Number

Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations

ultimately make a huge difference.
Madeleine Albright
Learned, Difference, Huge

A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to

sit down occasionally.
Peter Ustinov
Days, Head, Sit

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
Business, Works, Certain

My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had

been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other
than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism certainly not politics.
Benazir Bhutto
Politics, Father, Perhaps

I wrote 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' at the age of 30 under
intense, unshared personal stress and in extreme privacy. As an
intelligence officer in the guise of a junior diplomat at the British
Embassy in Bonn, I was a secret to my colleagues, and much of the
time to myself.
John le Carre

Time, Age, Stress

I was never the diplomatic diplomat.

Adolfo Aguilar Zinser
Diplomatic

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
Life, Father, Fact

My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of

1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as a diplomat at the
American embassy. My parents were enthusiastic about the move, so
my older brother and I felt like we were off to some place kind of cool.
Greg Kinnear
Family, Cool, Father

For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat
who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job
demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my
day job', and that comes only on weekends.
Vikas Swarup
Call, Writer, Weekends

I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is

a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of
experimental psychology.
Oswald Spengler
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