By those who still remember him, Morier is described as a diplomatist of ❋ George Henry Blore (N/A)
The diplomatist is the captain of the frigate, thrown out at a distance to make his observations, and enabled to exhibit his intrepidity and talent, through, from the smallness of his means, the results may be equally small. ❋ Various (N/A)
You speak of having saved me from a perquisition, -- a perquisition in the rooms of a diplomatist is a serious matter, Monsieur le Préfet, and I tell you quite frankly that I should have resisted such an outrage in every way in my power! ❋ Marie Belloc Lowndes (1907)
Remember that the rulers of Russia in those days were the most charming and cultivated people in the world, whereas the Prussian as a diplomatist was the same Prussian whom, even as an ally of ours in 1815, ❋ Harold Begbie (1900)
Nicholas preened himself as he sat there; he would tell Mary how he had bearded his Majesty, and what a diplomatist was her husband. ❋ Robert Hugh Benson (1892)
For there was the learned president of the Geographical, with overhanging brows and slow and gentle speech; there was the foreign corresponding secretary of the Historical, a man better known as a diplomatist and an author, whose long years abroad had liberalized his mind without spoiling his open-hearted American manners. ❋ Edward Eggleston (1869)
You see that even the bow of a diplomatist is a serious business! ❋ Benjamin Disraeli (1842)
"Why, Jim," said Paul, who had a twinkle in his eye, "that's diplomacy, and the man who practises it is called a diplomatist or diplomat. ❋ Unknown (1890)
Sir William Trumball [sic] whom Macaulay (chap. xxi) characterizes as “a learned civilian and an experienced diplomatist, of moderate opinions and of temper cautious to timidity” was appointed Secretary of State in 1691 and resigned in 1697 to make way for a more zealous partisan. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Eliot, the diplomatist and historian Harold Nicolson. ❋ Fouad Ajami (2010)
They may be what they call in diplomatist, a pull aside where there may be some conversation between Secretary of State Clinton and the Iranian deputy foreign minister. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In 2003, US diplomatist Peter Galbraith quietly resigned. ❋ Unknown (2009)
“Will he move to a more open style,” Richard Holbrooke wrote back then, “or will he remain the elusive, manipulative, brilliant diplomatist of recent years?” ❋ Walter Isaacson (2009)
And at the back of the minds of both Khrushchev and Eden — the hardened inner-party survivor and the suave patrician diplomatist, both of them political veterans of that same war — there palpably lurked the queasy feeling that their mighty predecessors would never have let things get so far out of hand. ❋ Unknown (2007)
He married Margaret, second daughter of Sir William Cunningham of Caprington, by Janet, only child and heiress of Sir James Dick of Prestonfield; and, among other children of this marriage were the late well-known diplomatist, Sir Robert Murray ❋ Unknown (2008)
The next President must immediately and surely move to repair this obviously dangerous malaise by appointing an international healer and diplomatist as US Secretary of State. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Yet Bush's embrace of the Cha memo shows that even a reluctant diplomatist can treat with enemies constructively if the resources and authority of the presidency are fully invested in the process. ❋ Unknown (2008)
There was some quaint diversity between the rude and gloomy Norwegian dramatist, already middle-aged, and the full-blooded, sparkling Swedish diplomatist of twenty-three, rich, flattered, and already as famous for his fashionable bonnes fortunes as Byron. ❋ Unknown (2008)
