 | John Arundel Barnes - Family & Relationships - 1994 - 222 pages
...very realm of lies'. We should not forget Sir Henry Wotton's punning definition of an ambassador as 'an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country' (Smith 1907:49; Walton 1951:92- 93). In this respect the world of diplomacy is scarcely distinguishable... | |
 | Steven Shapin - History - 1994 - 534 pages
...Prince, chs 15, 18-19, quoting 93; see also Whigham, Ambition and Privilege, 98-102. ambassador as "an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country."156 The poet Edmund Spenser said that the courtier "doth soonest rise that best can handle... | |
 | Frank-Rutger Hausmann - 1576-1649 - 1995 - 254 pages
...Vindeliorum XVI. Augusti Mensis Anno Christiane MD CIIII". Wotton wollte dies wie folgt übersetzt wissen: „An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country". Schoppe nutzt dies - er scheint während eines seiner häufigen Aufenthalte in Augsburg oder gar durch... | |
 | Cork Historical and Archaeological Society - Cork (Ireland : County) - 1916 - 248 pages
...in an album and conveyed by some busybodies to the Court in London. "An Ambassador," wrote Wotton, "is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." The saying did more honour to his veracity than to his diplomacy, with the result that when he was... | |
 | Garry Wills - History - 2013 - 340 pages
...government that sends him out, he exemplifies Sir Henry Wotton's famous definition of an ambassador as "an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country."1 His messages home are confidential; his communications abroad are duplicitous. If, on the... | |
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An Ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. 
