(208 quotes found)
“A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol.”
Adlai E. Stevenson
“There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy”
Mark Twain
“Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.”
Isaac Goldberg
“Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.”
Otto von Bismarck
“There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
“Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron”
Joseph Stalin
“MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy and officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility. His principal qualification is a degree of plausible inveracity next below that of an ambassador.”
Ambrose Bierce
“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
“There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign dealings are an open book, generally a check book.”
Will Rogers
“All war represents a failure of diplomacy”
Tony Benn
