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

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.

Diplomacy is thinking twice before saying nothing.

A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages.

Consul. In American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

When a diplomat says yes he means perhaps; when he says perhaps he means no; when he says no he is no diplomat.