Diplomacy Quotes and Sayings

Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.
– Winston Churchill

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Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.
– Mario Puzo

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Diplomacy is telling someone to “Go to Hell” in such a way, that they look forward to taking the trip.

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I observe and remain silent.
– Elizabeth I Tudor

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

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The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
– Sun Tzu

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A diplomat thinks twice before saying nothing.

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

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Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

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He who has learned to disagree without being disagreeable has discovered the most valuable secret of a diplomat.
– Robert Estabrook

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

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If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.
– Sue Monk Kidd

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He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.
– George P. Shultz

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Diplomacy is thinking twice before saying nothing.

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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
– Tony Benn

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Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions.
– Iain Pears

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Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths.
– Winston Churchill

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Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.
– Warren W. Wiersbe

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When diplomacy ends, War begins.
– Adolf Hitler

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

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

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Tact is the ability to step on a man’s toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.
– Harry S. Truman

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

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You’re in America now. Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you’d prefer.
– Jim Butcher

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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
– Charles de Gaulle

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

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Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself.
– Aesop

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I’m always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers.
– S.M. Stirling

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Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
– Theodore Roosevelt

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Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.
– David Lloyd

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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.

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What good is a smooth tongue without sharp teeth?
– Jocelyn Murray

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When a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps; when he says perhaps, he means no; when he says no, he is no diplomat.

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In the end, the work of diplomats continues even while others fight. So, it’s not necessarily true that everyone needs to march.
– David Brin

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

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It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.
– Tom Clancy

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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
– Marquis de Sade

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In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid.
– Lincoln Chafee

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A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.
– Edward Heath

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When a diplomat says yes he means perhaps; when he says perhaps he means no; when he says no he is no diplomat.

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diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one’s country.
– Ambrose Bierce

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An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.
– Henry Wotton

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

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Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.
– Karl Kraus

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Diplomacy, of course, is a subtle and nuanced craft, so much so that it’s said that when the most wily diplomat of the nineteenth-century passed away, other diplomats asked, on reports of his death, “What do you suppose the old fox meant by that?”
– Ronald Reagan

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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

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Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.
– Robin Hobb

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Diplomacy never works.
– Nadia Scrieva

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The gateway to compromise is not war, yet communication and diplomacy.

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A diplomat is a man who can juggle a hot potato long enough for it to become a cold issue.
– Vernon K. Mclellan

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Tact – is a weapon of mass harmonization; it brings men of war into terms where guns have failed to yield a single grain of victory.

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If we think of nations as “actors” on the world stage, diplomats are the stage hands.
– Gregory Adams

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In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk.
– Carey Williams

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