ambassador quotes

Like an ambassador that beds a queen With the nice caution of a sword between.

-John Cleveland
  'The  Antiplatonic'.

Their embassies, he said, were everywhere but operated independently and no ambassador would ever be relieved.

- SeamusJustin Heaney
  The Haw Lantern,'From the Republic of Conscience', pt.3, stanza 4.

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

- Sir Henry Wotton
Quoted in IzaakWalton's Life (1651).