Prestige Loss Quotes

So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award.

Amendments to the Constitution ought not to be too frequently made ... [if] continually tinkered with it would lose all its prestige and dignity.

The Government should take a firm, bold line. This delay - this uncertainty, by which, abroad, we are losing our prestige and our position, while Russia is advancing and will be before Constantinople in no time! Then the Government will be fearfully blamed and the Queen so humiliated that she thinks she would abdicate at once.

At dinner parties I sit below the salt now. There are a lot of interesting people there.

The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.

An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States gains no advantage and it loses prestige by offering, indeed peddling, its alliances to all and sundry. An alliance should be hard diplomatic currency, valuable and hard to get, and not inflationary paper from the mimeograph machine in the State Department.

Good heavens, what will they say in London.

I was an Emmy nominee and an Emmy snub.