Logo
Quote by Walter Bagehot
An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle. - Wa

An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle. – Walter Bagehot

Other quotes by Walter Bagehot

Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns. – Walter Bagehot

Category:
Presidency
Author
Walter Bagehot
Read Quote

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. – Walter Bagehot

Category:
History
Author
Walter Bagehot
Read Quote

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life. – Walter Bagehot

Category:
Family
Author
Walter Bagehot
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Diplomacy
category

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun. – John D. Rockefeller

Category:
Diplomacy

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way. – Daniele Vare

Category:
Diplomacy

Diplomacy: The art of saying “nice doggie” until you can find a rock. – Wynn Catlin

Category:
Diplomacy

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are to finishing it. You take Diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. – Will Rogers

Category:
Diplomacy

Random Quotes

The future is no more uncertain than the present. – Walt Whitman

Category:
Future

You dont have freedom because you are a hyphenated American you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected. – Ron Paul

Category:
Freedom

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time. – George Orwell

Category:
Time

Every relationship Ive been in becomes long-distance because of work. Its never worked out. It puts an intense strain on the relationship, and at a certain point, it becomes too difficult. – Anton Yelchin

Category:
relationship