Diplomatist Quotes

#1. The journalist, whose main duty is speed, is likely sometimes to get an advantage over the diplomatist whose main object is accuracy.

George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon Of Kedleston

#2. PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.

Ambrose Bierce

#3. Dexterity is one of the chief weapons of diplomacy; governments rely more upon the supremacy of this instrument, when in the hands of a skillful diplomatist, than in the soundness or justice of their claims.

James Ellis

#4. And a diplomatist is one who lets the other fellow think he's getting his way, while all the time he's having his own. It never does any special harm to let people have their way with their mouths.

George Horace Lorimer

#5. The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.

Joan Jett

#6. Too many people get away with truly awful 'reasoning', not because what they are arguing happens to be true, but because they are in the majority.

Ellie Rose McKee

#7. When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant.

Howard Zinn

#8. In the end, we all die for what we believe in... mostly because we all die.

Nazareth Bergeron

#9. the Reverend Felix Clowne,

Georgette Heyer

#10. Never would forever, with all its meanings, be so clear and distinct as in the true, guaranteed end of the world.

Sarah Dessen

#11. Said the monk: "All these mountains and rivers and the earth and stars - where do they come from?" Said the master: "Where does your question come from?"

Anthony De Mello

#12. To use words and phrases in an easygoing manner without scrutinizing them too curiously is not in general a mark of ill-breeding. On the contrary, there is something low-bred in being too precise. But sometimes there is no help for it

Socrates