...many examples. — [There is here doubtless a play upon the word, as in Sir Henry Wotton's definition: 'An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.' — ED.] 126. I must] STEEVENS: Alluding to the proverb: 'Patience perforce is medicine...

...thing we've done throughout our history. I have to put the best face on things. My father used to say, 'An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.' He was quoting someone, I don't remember who—" "I've heard of your father. He negotiated the Peace...

...disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. - Voltaire V, ir,irm 2331. An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. - Henry Walton jD\<f8, ffflSF «T«irrD (SiyremuxuiTm iMBfla&mr QeueifliyriLi 22. Politics 2332. In...

...negotiation became career diplomats; an English protodiplomat was Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639), whose remark "An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country," all but wrecked his career. The sultan's court in Istanbul, power base of the Muslim threat to the...

...of the Elizabethan grandee who in 1604 penned the immortally cynical definition of an ambassador as 'an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country'), and Dorian Gray himself (was it, as Wilde later publicly denied, John Gray, the poet of decadence and...

...Seneca. 2. States are as the men are; they grow out of human characters - Plato. Statesmanship 1 . An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. - Henry Wotton. 2. l disapprove of what you say, but l will defend to the death your right to say it...

...This is the hinge of Walton's witty translation of Sir Henry Wotton's definition of an ambassador — "an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." ' The following phrases should be noticed : 1. Lit along. See ALONG. 2. Lie on or Lie upon. This phrase...

...Sarpi (see p.140). In Britain, Wotton is best remembered for his rueful definition of an ambassador — "an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country". From the Ca' d'Oro to the Rialto The next palace of interest is the most beguiling on the canal - the...

...same applies to diplomacy in general: Sir Henry Wotton famously remarked in the sixteenth century that 'an ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country'. 8 It is, of course, dangerous to treat 'bon mots', no matter how apt, as premises for moral and political...

...of them in interpreting one culture to another. But an ambassador, as Henry Wotton famously wrote, 'is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country'/ (Try to translate that wonderful aphorism into any language that does not have a homonym like 'lie'...