Quotes on Diplomacy
1. Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way. —Isaac Goldberg
2. Diplomacy is the art of fishing tranquilly in troubled waters. —J. Christopher Herold
3. Diplomacy : The art of jumping into troubled waters without making a splash. —Art Linkletter
4. Diplomacy-lying in state. —Oliver Herford
5. Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way. —Daniele Vare
6. Diplomacy-the patriotic art of lying for one’s country. —Ambrose Bierce
7. One function of diplomacy is to dress realism in morality. —Will and Ariel Durant
8. A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. —Caskie Stinnett
9. The reason for having diplomatic relations is not to confer a compliment, but to secure a convenience. —Winston Churchill
10. To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. —Will and Ariel Durant
11. A diplomat these days is nothing but a head-waiter who’s allowed to sit down occasionally. —Peter Ustinov
12. A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbour’s throat without having his neighbour notice it. —Trygve Lie
13. A diplomat is a fellow that lets you do all the talking while he gets what he wants. —Frank McKinney Hubbard
14. An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. —Henry Wotton
15. When a diplomat says ‘yes’ he means ‘perhaps’; when he says ‘perhaps’ he means ‘noj; when he says ‘no’ he is no diplomat. —Anonymous
16. Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron. —Joseph Stalin
17. Diplomacy has rarely been able to gain at the conference table what cannot be gained or held on the battlefield. —Walter Bedell Smith
18. It is better for aged diplomats to be bored than for young men to die. —Warren Austin
19. In order to be a diplomat one must speak a number of languages, including double-talk. —Carey McWilliams
20. Diplomat : A person who can be disarming even though his country isn’t —Sidney Brody