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
Diplomacy is telling someone to “Go to Hell” in such a way, that they look forward to taking the trip.
Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.
– Mario Puzo
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
Diplomacy is thinking twice before saying nothing.
He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.
– George P. Shultz
Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions.
– Iain Pears
All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
– Tony Benn
Diplomacy is to do and say The nastiest thing in the nicest way.
– Bisaac Goldberg
When diplomacy ends, War begins.
– Adolf Hitler
Tact is the ability to step on a man’s toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.
– Harry S. Truman
Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.
– Warren W. Wiersbe
A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor’s throat without having his neighbor notice it.
– Trygve Lie
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy – give one and take ten.
– Mark Twain
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
– Will Durant
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
– Charles de Gaulle
Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
– Theodore Roosevelt
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 were invented simply to waste time.
– David Lloyd
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
What good is a smooth tongue without sharp teeth?
– Jocelyn Murray
diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one’s country.
– Ambrose Bierce