Diplomacy Quotes

Here is a collection of our favorite quotes and sayings on DIplomacy.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
~Robert Frost

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way.
~Bisaac Goldberg

A Foreign Secretary is forever poised between the cliché and the indiscretion.
~Harold MacMillan

The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war.
~Will Rogers

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
~ Andrew Young

Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.
~Daniel Pipes

A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor’s throat without having his neighbor notice it.
~Trygve Lie

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains, they drown in every drop.”
~Charles De Gaulle

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
~Sir Winston Churchill

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.
~David Lloyd George

Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.
~Randolph Bourne

Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.
~Yassir Arafat

Diplomacy – The art of letting other people achieve your ends
~ Unknown

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
~ Will Smith

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whims.
~James Reston

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
~Will Durant

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
~ Otto von Bismarck

Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time.
~Bo Bennett

Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.
~John Bolton

International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smouldering one.
~Ambrose Bierce

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
~Will Durant

Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron
~ Joseph Stalin

Diplomacy: The business of handling a porcupine without disturbing the quills.
~Author Unknown

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

DIPLOMACY is the patriotic art of lying for one’s country.
~Ambrose Bierce

Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies.
~ Kofi Busia

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.
~Di Cavour

Diplomacy is the art of saying “Nice doggie” until you can find a rock.
~Will Rogers

The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy – give one and take ten
~Mark Twain

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way.
~ Daniele Vare

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