embassies quotes

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.

   The decorations are likethose of the embassyof a nation about to go into voluntary liquidation.

- Colin MacInnes
England, Half English,'SeeYou  At Mabel's'.