 | Connie Robertson - Humor - 1998 - 404 pages
...calm. 4592 I must get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini. WOOTON Sir Henry 1568-1639 4593 An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. 4594 Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes. 4595 'Upon the Death ofSirAlbertus Moreton's... | |
 | Jerusha Hull McCormack - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 246 pages
...the truth, for he shall never be believed. Another aphorism landed him in hot water with King James: 'an ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.' Sir Henry has been described as 'an amiable dilettante or literary amateur, with a growing inclination... | |
 | John Aubrey - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 550 pages
...; his poems Character of a Happy Life and On his Mistress the Queen of Bohemia ; and his aphorisms An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. WREN, SIR CHRISTOPHER (1632-1723), successively Fellow of All Souls, Professor of Astronomy at Gresham... | |
 | Kenneth Parker - Business & Economics - 1999 - 308 pages
...is credited with providing the following definition of an ambassador (written in a friend's album): ‘An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country'. 51 Orhan Burian, ‘Interest of the English in Turkey as reflected in English literature of the Renaissance',... | |
 | Jiarui Cheng, Chia-Jui Cheng, Tu-hwan Kim, Doo Hwan Kim - Law - 2000 - 448 pages
...est vir bonus peregre missus ad mentiendum reipublicae causa". Translated into English, this means: "An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country". One sometimes wonders, especially since power politics in disguise has taken over from open power politics... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 604 pages
...seemed, / Grows tedious even in a young man's ear. William Wordsworth, 1805, The Prelude, VII, 508 55:30 An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth. Sir Henry Wotton, 1604, witticism written in the autograph album of Christopher Fleckmore... | |
 | Judith Ivory - Fiction - 2001 - 408 pages
...actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Essays, 1580 An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. Sir Henry Wotton, firsl printed attribution in Efclesiasricus by Schroppe, 1611 Sam Cody is a good... | |
 | David Edwards - Religion - 2001 - 406 pages
...irritated, his more cynical witticisms became known and gave offence (but did he actually say that an ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country?), he was given a nickname which suggested that he had become Italian. Eventually he was again employed... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...(see ambhi) came ambage, ambiguous; embassy, ambassador. Sir Henry Wotton in 1604 neatly declared that "an ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." fumigate; fustigate; levigate; litigation. L ex-ags-men; examine, examination; exact. From driving... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 778 pages
...sometime lay] GORDON: It is impossible not to quote here Sir Henry Wooton's definition of an ambassador: 'an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.' 99. At ... kindly] To remedy the slight metrical deficiency here ABBOTT (§ 484) reads 'kindly' as... | |
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An Ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. 
