Quotes About Protocol

A president from a partner nation should not make comments on Italian politics.

When I receive offers from overseas, I respond with handwritten letters since I'm unable to visit them myself.

You don't go to church and tell the choir how to sing if you're a visitor.

The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.

I think I'm expected to behave in a certain manner.

I'm a person who believes in rules.

She noted with pleasure that he'd already dispensed with a salutation

The emperor, and all his court, came out to meet us; but his great officers would by no means suffer his majesty to endanger his person by mounting on my body. At

The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.

Ronald Reagan was a man who knew the diplomatic form. He also had a showman's ear for a tune. So when, at an official dinner, the marine band slipped into 'Edelweiss', he stopped mid-anecdote, rose to his feet, placed a reverential hand over his heart and stared into the blank mid-distance out of respect for the Austrian national anthem.

A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: Protocol, Geritol, and alcohol.

Until 1922, for instance, equerries were expected to pay for their own cartridges when they were shooting with the king.)

I'm perfectly happy to color within the network lines when I have to.

It's perfectly acceptable to wear a short dress to formal occasions.

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

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Don't be ever in court or a castle without a woman to make your excuse.

BJP should direct our Ministers to wear traditional and modernised Indian clothes while abroad. In coat and tie, they look like waiters.

I literally touched down in Kosovo and the president, prime minister and mayor were waiting for me to get off the plane. Apparently that's unheard of. They don't wait for nobody.

The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.

I have walked majestically with kings and queens and presidents and other heads of states.

I walked out of a restaurant with my sister Sana and the next day it was all over the media, 'Sooraj seen with a mystery girl'. That mystery girl was my sister. It's not fair. They should have some protocol.

You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.

You mustn't upstage the bride.