“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
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
Oscar Wilde
“Not necessarily someone who is clever he was wise, but if someone is wise he definitely clever”
Marsiano Revall
“How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.”
“Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.”
Albert Einstein
“The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten”
Mark Twain
“Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron”
Joseph Stalin
