A Quote by Henry Wotton

Ambassadors are honest men sent abroad to lie for their countries.

Henry Wotton

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Henry Wotton
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March 30, 1568 - 1639

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.

Henry Wotton

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.

Henry Wotton

We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries.

Townsend Harris

Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go / Abroad upon her errands to and fro.

James Howell

An Ambassadore is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country, a news writer is a man of no virtue who lies at home for himself.

Henry Wotton

But here's the thing about being honest: All the liars HATE you for it, and most of the people in the world are liars. They lie to their bosses, they lie to their families, they lie to themselves, they lie so much they don't even know they're lying anymore. If you have the courage to be honest even a little bit all those people will hate you for it, because their lie is reflected in your honesty. Oscar Wilde wasn't kidding when he said, "If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."

Tucker Max

Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.

Robin Morgan

they may all be drunk at my place, but they're all honest, and though we do lie-because I lie, too-in the end we'll lie our way to the truth

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I feel that Orphei Drängar are among Sweden's foremost ambassadors. It's always a delight to hear the drängar, both abroad and at home.

Jan Eliasson

What is it about the government and its agents and employees that they can lie to us with impunity, but we risk being sent to jail if we lie to them?

Andrew Napolitano

Honest men live on charity in their age; the almshouses are full of men who never stole a copper penny. Honest men are the fools and the saints.

Taylor Caldwell

A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.

Horace

When the ambassadors of other foreign countries come to Japan to make treaties, they can be told that such and such a treaty has been made with the ambassador of the United States, and they will rest satisfied with this.

Townsend Harris

I was born on Nov. 4, which is election day ... my birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year.