embassy Quotes

1. "Embassy Row in Washington, D.C., the summer I turned"
- Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

2. "The church, we're to meet in the church. Do try to wipe that blood off your mail, Uhtred. We're an embassy!"
- Bernard Cornwell, Lords of the North

3. "When informed that a clerk at the Portuguese embassy was spying for both the Germans and the Italians, he wrote: Why don’t you shoot him?"
- Ben Macintyre, Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies

4. "The title of the elder branch falling at length to him, he obtained an important embassy, which served as an excuse for hastening the marriage,"
- John William Polidori, The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre

5. "I dare say being a receptionist at the American Embassy in Grosvenor Square gets you a reasonable salary and all the nylon stockings you can eat,"
- Hugh Laurie, The Gun Seller

6. "Mom’s Israeli. Dad’s Brazilian. What can I say? I am Embassy Row personified. You really lucked out in the best friend department"
- Ally Carter, All Fall Down

7. "It’s not as if it’d taste any different under all that curry, said Burleigh. I was at a dinner in their embassy once, and do you know what they made me eat? It was a sheep’s—"
- Terry Pratchett, Jingo

8. "The Embassy Suites in Des Moines was of the architectural style known as 20th Century Hotel Unremarkable, a large beige building apparently designed not to piss anybody off, except maybe the local aesthetes."
- John Sandford, Extreme Prey

9. "Conroy writes that, while part of him was following the basketball game from the bench, "the other part, an embassy of a completely sovereign nation, would fling its doors open to the most authentic part of me."
- Pat Conroy, My Losing Season: A Memoir

10. "I've been back less than two weeks, and already I've turned the sweetest girl on Embassy Row into a thief and a conspiracy theorist. Even for me, it is an impressively quick act of corruption."
- Ally Carter, All Fall Down