Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip. – Winston Churchill
Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment. – Mario Puzo
Diplomacy is telling someone to “Go to Hell” in such a way, that they look forward to taking the trip.
I observe and remain silent. – Elizabeth I Tudor
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age. – Robert Frost
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. – Sun Tzu
A diplomat thinks twice before saying nothing.
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way. – Daniele Vare
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
He who has learned to disagree without being disagreeable has discovered the most valuable secret of a diplomat. – Robert Estabrook
Diplomacy is the art of saying “Nice Doggie” until you can find a rock. – Will Rogers
If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you. – Sue Monk Kidd
He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides. – George P. Shultz
Diplomacy is thinking twice before saying nothing.
All war represents a failure of diplomacy. – Tony Benn
Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions. – Iain Pears
Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths. – Winston Churchill
Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy. – Warren W. Wiersbe
When diplomacy ends, War begins. – Adolf Hitler
Diplomacy is to do and say The nastiest thing in the nicest way. – Bisaac Goldberg
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy – give one and take ten. – Mark Twain
Tact is the ability to step on a man’s toes without messing up the shine on his shoes. – Harry S. Truman
A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor’s throat without having his neighbor notice it. – Trygve Lie
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
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop. – Charles de Gaulle
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. – Will Durant
Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself. – Aesop
I’m always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers. – S.M. Stirling
Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft! – Theodore Roosevelt
Diplomats were invented simply to waste time. – David Lloyd
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
What good is a smooth tongue without sharp teeth? – Jocelyn Murray
When a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps; when he says perhaps, he means no; when he says no, he is no diplomat.
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
Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron. – Joseph Stalin
It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly. – Tom Clancy
Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated. – Marquis de Sade
In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid. – Lincoln Chafee
A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing. – Edward Heath
When a diplomat says yes he means perhaps; when he says perhaps he means no; when he says no he is no diplomat.
diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one’s country. – Ambrose Bierce
An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country. – Henry Wotton
Diplomacy: The business of handling a porcupine without disturbing the quills.
Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated. – Karl Kraus
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
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power. – Robin Hobb
Diplomacy never works. – Nadia Scrieva
The gateway to compromise is not war, yet communication and diplomacy.
A diplomat is a man who can juggle a hot potato long enough for it to become a cold issue. – Vernon K. Mclellan
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.
If we think of nations as “actors” on the world stage, diplomats are the stage hands. – Gregory Adams
In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk. – Carey Williams
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