(208 quotes found)
“Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.”
Will Rogers
“If you can't go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it”
Ashleigh Brilliant
“The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war.”
“The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten”
Mark Twain
“For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America.”
George W. Bush
“Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.”
Andrew Young
“A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.”
Moliere
“A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it.”
Trygve Lie
“Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies.”
Kofi Busia
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
