Famous quotes containing the words diplomatic and/or quarter:
“Divorce. A resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.”
—Ambrose Bierce (18421914)
“I was able to believe for years that going to Madame Swanns was a vague chimera that I would never attain; after having passed a quarter of an hour there, it was the time at which I did not know her which became to me a chimera and vague, as a possible destroyed by another possible.”
—Marcel Proust (18711922)