“He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.”
Qui fait le conseiller n'est plus ambassadeur.
Nicomède, act III, scene iii.
Nicomède (1651)
Philippines' Rodrigo Duterte insults US envoy with homophobic slur https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/10/philippines-leader-calls-us-ambassador-gay-son-of-a-whore-prompting-summons, The Guardian (10 August 2016)
“He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.”
Qui fait le conseiller n'est plus ambassadeur.
Nicomède, act III, scene iii.
Nicomède (1651)
Ozzy Osbourne (1948) English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter
I said, “As long as they’re laughing, it doesn’t matter.”
“Ozzy Osbourne: The Rolling Stone Interview”, (July 25, 2002)
François-René de Chateaubriand book Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
Book VI: Ch. 8: Comparison of Washington and Bonaparte
Mémoires d'outre-tombe (1848 – 1850)
Context: I halt at the beginning of my travels, in Pennsylvania, in order to compare Washington and Bonaparte. I would rather not have concerned myself with them until the point where I had met Napoleon; but if I came to the edge of my grave without having reached the year 1814 in my tale, no one would then know anything of what I would have written concerning these two representatives of Providence. I remember Castelnau: like me Ambassador to England, who wrote like me a narrative of his life in London. On the last page of Book VII, he says to his son: ‘I will deal with this event in Book VIII,’ and Book VIII of Castelnau’s Memoirs does not exist: that warns me to take advantage of being alive.
“Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.”
Francesco Guicciardini (1483–1540) Italian writer, historian and politician
Gli ambasciadori sono l'occhio e l'orecchio degli stati.
Storia d' Italia (1537-1540)
“Ambassadors are the eyes and ears of States.”
Francesco Sansovino (1521–1583) Italian writer
Gli Ambasciadori sono gli occhi e gli orecchi de gli stati.
CCLXXVI.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 305.
Concetti Politici (1578)
David Lange (1942–2005) New Zealand politician and 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand
Source: National Business Review, 17/2/86.
Francis Escudero (1969) Filipino politician
Escudero, F. [Francis]. (2016, February 8). Retrieved from Official Facebook Page of Francis Escudero https://www.facebook.com/senchizescudero/posts/10153860392210610/ <br class="br">2016, Facebook
“The first ladies ought to be ambassadors as well.”
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2010s, 2014, U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit Spousal Program (August 2014)