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jdmccafferty: 28 Mar 1635: Charles I pays off the £300 owed by Sir Henry Wotton, MP and diplomat, who'd been arrested on 12 Mar.
Wotton once described a diplomat as: 'a man sent to lie abroad for his country' (NPG)
SongsandSonets: To Sir Henry Wotton.
streetwiseprof: “An Ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.” Sir Henry Wotton.
Well, Lavrov isn't honest, but you get the point.
DavidGrayless: An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the
benefit of his country.
-- Sir Henry Wotton, 1568-1639
SongsandSonets: To Sir Henry Wotton.
PoetryAlive: To Sir Henry Wotton
woolf_atthedoor: ?? to anyone who knows about Victorian/early 20th C indexing. The Pearsall Smith edition of Letters of Sir Henry Wotton has some odd em, en and long dash practices. Anyone know what the indexer intended by the long dash on the 2nd last line of the Abbot, George entry below?
irlrowory: the two ways people imagine sir henry wotton. i cannot elaborate.
KimMacthomas: There’s not much on Mary Wotton I research her life I found was She Married 2x almost Three but Died before The last marriage-But I was interested to know the connection of her to Lady Jane Grey -was her Aunt by Marriage to Sir Henry Guilford- She was a secret Protestant-
SongsandSonets: To Sir Henry Wotton.
SongsandSonets: To Sir Henry Wotton.
textexantex: Sir Henry Wotton said an ambassador is a man “sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.” A press secretary, on the other hand, is a broad sent to lie to her country for the good of the admin.
Donizet13755713: An honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. Sir Henry Wotton
eoin_price: I have been thinking about Sir Henry's Wotton's lovely insight into the 1613 performance of Shakespeare and Fletcher's Henry VIII: The Kings Players had a new Play, called All is true, representing some principall pieces of the raign of Henry 8. which was set forth with many,,
DavidGrayless: Sir Albertus Morton (c. 1584 – November, 1625) was an English diplomat and Secretary of State. His widow's death, apparently from grief, is commemorated in a celebrated epigraph by his relative Sir Henry Wotton.
SongsandSonets: To Sir Henry Wotton.
SongsandSonets: To Sir Henry Wotton.
UnixFortuneBot: An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country. -- Sir Henry Wotton, 1568-1639
MrsTad: Poem is 'To Sir Henry Wotton'
jdmccafferty: Sir Henry Wotton from the frontispiece to his 'The State of Christendom' (1657).
British Museum
Bharat12c: Sir Henry Wotton, the seventeenth-century British diplomat, once remarked that an ambassador is "an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country" This comment nicely captures the following fact.
litcharts: New guide! The Character of a Happy Life by Sir Henry Wotton
SongsandSonets: To Sir Henry Wotton.
SongsandSonets: To Sir Henry Wotton.
streetwiseprof: "An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country."
-Sir Henry Wotton
infinita_fiori: sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls.
donne to sir henry wotton, 1597-8
allforandi1: "Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls" - "To Sir Henry Wotton," John Donne
KODREA CONNECTED SA ASAP
MITSUY4LVR: sir henry wotton - avoidant attachment style
NiazHussainBro7: British Ambassador,sir Henry wotton,expressed that an ambassador is an honest man who is sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
ansatsu_sha: He first deceased; she for a little tried
To live without him, liked it not, and died.
Sir Henry Wotton / Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton’s Wife
i_rubana: Reading up on science diplomacy. Found this definition of an ambassador so accurate-
‘an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country’.
Sir Henry Wotton, 17th century diplomat
SongsandSonets: To Sir Henry Wotton.
SongsandSonets: To Sir Henry Wotton.
Siraj30284062: Man is freed from servile bands
Of hope to rise , or fear to fall:
Lord of himself, though not of lands, and having nothing, yet hath all.
Sir Henry Wotton
DrIanHall: Sir Henry Wotton: “An ambassador is an honest gentleman sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.” Or perhaps a dishonest one.
mryawarabbas: An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
Sir Henry Wotton
UnixFortuneBot: An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country. -- Sir Henry Wotton, 1568-1639
SharanyaJp: How happy is he born and taught
That serveth not another's will ;
Whose Armor is his honest thought,
And simple truth his utmost skill !
Sir Henry Wotton .
SongsandSonets: To Sir Henry Wotton.
SongsandSonets: To Sir Henry Wotton.
HenryEOliver: "Even those that in point of religion, were of the Roman perswasion (of which there were very many in his Diocess) did yet (such is the power of visible Piety) ever looked upon him with respect and reverence."
Walton, Life of Sir Henry Wotton
p3palazzo: No contemporary critic will ever be as brazen as Sir Henry Wotton.
mukwelesundi: An Ambassador is "an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country"
Sir Henry Wotton, the 17th century diplomat
jdmccafferty: 28 Mar 1635: Charles I pays off the £300 owed by Sir Henry Wotton, MP and diplomat, who'd been arrested on 12 Mar.
Wotton once described a diplomat as: 'a man sent to lie abroad for his country' (NPG)
FerrariPaolino: The itch of disagreement will turn out to be the scab of the churches. See Izaak Walton's article on Sir Henry Wotton.
P_Lukasiewicz: "An ambassador is an honest man who is sent to lie abroad for the good of his country."
Sir Henry Wotton, XVI wiek.
Cormac_whistler: Perhaps the Russian Ambassador to Ireland might like to reflect on the words of Sir Henry Wotton, the British Ambassador to Venice over 400 years ago. His definition of an ambassador was ‘an honest man who is sent to lie abroad for the good of his country’.
aconservativew4: Sir Henry Wotton is often credited with the observation that "a diplomat is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country". Watching them in recent weeks, one must conclude that today's ministers are dishonest men and women sent to television studios to lie for Mr Johnson.
CoughlinRyleigh: And seeing the snail which everywhere doth roam,
Carrying his own house still, still is at home,
Follow (for he is easy paced) this snail,
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail
-John Donne, "To Sir Henry Wotton"
elenabiraghi: Sir Henry Wotton recorded that Henry VIII "was set forth with many extraordinary circumstances of pomp and ceremony".[169] On 29 June
ANameOfABot: Sir Henry Wotton: He first deceased; she for a little tried. To live without him; liked it not, and died.
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syahir_ali: "An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country"
Sir Henry Wotton in Backstabber for Beginner.
UnixFortuneBot: An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country. -- Sir Henry Wotton, 1568-1639
JJ_Angelus: “An ambassador is an honest gentleman sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.”
—Sir Henry Wotton, 1604
Statement rings true.
Note : We can do without an an inapt ambassador.
ANameOfABot: Sir Henry Wotton: He first deceased; she for a little tried. To live without him; liked it not, and died.
ANameOfABot: Sir Henry Wotton: He first deceased; she for a little tried. To live without him; liked it not, and died.
ANameOfABot: Sir Henry Wotton: He first deceased; she for a little tried. To live without him; liked it not, and died.
RhubarbVaselino: "An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country."
(Sir Henry Wotton, English Diplomat, 1604)
angloarminian: We may never know "where the questions stick between Arminius and the Church of England (if there be any)." --Sir Henry Wotton, 1616, Works of Arminius, 1:lxiv.
Cortissoz2: This man is freed from servile hands/ Of hope to rise, fear to fall;/ Lord of himself, though not of lands,/ And having nothing, yet hath all. -Sir Henry Wotton.
Cortissoz2: "An ambassador is an honest gentleman sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." -Sir Henry Wotton.
JYDubath: Sir Henry Wotton --- The Character of a Happy Life
UnixFortuneBot: An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country. -- Sir Henry Wotton, 1568-1639
JYDubath: Sir Henry Wotton --- On his mistress, the queen of Bohemia
MAAWLAW: Apropos nothing at all, really... “An ambassador is an honest gentleman [sic] sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.”
—Sir Henry Wotton, 1604
LeoTheLess: An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news-writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for himself. —Sir Henry Wotton, quoted by AJN
radical__middle: Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton’s Wife
He first deceas’d; she for a little tri’d
To live without him: lik’d it not, and di’d.
-Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639)
sabihaliraza: An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country .
Sir Henry Wotton British diplomat
ArturoZaher: “YOU meaner beauties of the night,
That poorly satisfy our eyes
More by your number than your light,
You common people of the skies,
What are you, when the Moon shall rise? 5”
-Sir Henry Wotton
ArturoZaher: Sir Henry Wotton almost sounds like me when I say Plebeian Heathen…
EcclesHistSoc: Well, first of all you need the right man to do the talking. Not the English Ambassador, Sir Henry Wotton, because Venice has laws banning ambassadors from meeting state officials in private contexts (too high a risk of leaking public secrets)
EcclesHistSoc: Like the Gunpowder Plot, the Venetian Interdict had drawn attention to the threat the Papacy could pose to secular authority.
With anti-papal feeling running high in both states, the English Ambassador to Venice, Sir Henry Wotton, saw an opportunity... for a Venetian Reformation
EcclesHistSoc: Here's a painting, by Odoardo Fialetti, of a Northern European ambassador - probably Sir Henry Wotton - meeting the Doge in the Venetian Collegio
Painted c. 1604-1620. It's now in the Royal Collection, donated by Wotton
dankquote: An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country!.....Sir Henry Wotton
JehanMestral: "An ambassador is an honest gentleman sent to lie abroad for the good of his country" Sir Henry Wotton
JehanMestral: "Tell the truth and so puzzle and confound your adversaries" Sir Henry Wotton
williechunderan: Hans Holbein the Younger
Portrait of Mary Wotton, 1527
the second wife of Sir Henry Guildford
Oil on panel (87 x 70,6 cm)
Saint Louis Art Museum, USA.
mulegirl: The word “delight” gets used so much in design because of the way Sir Henry Wotton translated Vitruvius’ The Elements of Architecture in 1624.
Mitch Kapor quoted Wotton’s interpretation as Vetruvius in his 1990 software design manifesto.
iamabofh: In the words of 19th century British politician and diplomat Sir Henry Wotton, "An ambassador is an honest gentleman sent to lie abroad for the good of his country."
UnixFortuneBot: An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country. -- Sir Henry Wotton, 1568-1639
HarryWatson63: "Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls,
For thus, friends absent speak. This ease controls
The tediousness of my life; but for these
I could ideate nothing which could please,
But I should wither in one day and pass
To a bottle of hay...."
zmkc: He first deceased, she for a little tried To live without him, liked it not, and died. Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton’s Wife, 1651, quoted by Anthony Lane in the New Yorker,...
Nhamo48248468: An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country - Sir Henry Wotton
robinsaikia: Inspiration from Sir Henry Wotton
jdmccafferty: 28 Mar 1635: Charles I pays off the £300 owed by Sir Henry Wotton, MP and diplomat, who'd been arrested on 12 Mar.
Wotton once described a diplomat as: 'a man sent to lie abroad for his country' (NPG)
nanaoseiike: An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth ~Sir Henry Wotton
benevolentbence: He first deceased; she for little tried
To live without him, liked it not, and died.
-Sir Henry Wotton
ahamsarcasmi: "This man is free from servile bands
Of hope to rise, or fear to fall:
Lord of himself, though not of lands,
And having nothing, he hath all."
~Sir Henry Wotton, 'The Character of a Happy Life'
GeorgeShiber: “Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.”
— John Donne, 'To Sir Henry Wotton'
“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”
― John Milton, 'Areopagitica'
billybaroo49: ...
This man is freed from servile bands
Of hope to rise, or fear to fall;
Lord of himself, through not of lands,
And having nothing, yet hath all.
- Sir Henry Wotton via Middlemarch
Krista_DC: Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries.—Sir Henry Wotton
Ataraxes1: An ambassador is a man of virtue who is sent abroad to lie for his country; a news-writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for himself.” (Sir Henry Wotton)
chelysviols: The final track on ‘Amavi’ is a wonderful new commission from composer Jill Jarman - yes, new music for viols & voices! ‘Now are my thoughts at peace’ is a beautiful setting of a text by Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639), some of whose work East also set.
JoelEveretMusic: This man is free from servile bands
Of hope to rise or fear to fall,
Lord of himself, though not of lands,
And having nothing, yet hath all.
- Sir Henry Wotton
Page_Upon_Page: The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr ... (Published: 1805)
Full text:
LyppardBooks: Now of the work it self, thou shalt find in it many curious things...
Incomparable Pieces by the Curious Pencil of the Ever Memorable Sir Henry Wotton, Knight; London, 1654.
QuotesInno: An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country. Sir Henry Wotton
AlanLangdonRBLX: ‘An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.’ - Sir Henry Wotton
matcheydj: Izaak Walton's HBD today!
A London ironmonger, retired at 50, devoted the rest of his life to country pursuits, above all fishing. The Compleat Angler (1653), full of pious contentment, gentle character. He wrote of John Donne, George Herbert, Richard Hooker and Sir Henry Wotton.
