diplomacy Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

41 diplomacy Quotes
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“Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.”
Andrew Young Quotes
“Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.”
W. Averell Harriman Quotes
“Diplomacy: lying in state.”
Oliver Herford Quotes
“International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smouldering one.”
Ambrose Bierce Quotes
“A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to Hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.”
Anonymous Quotes
“The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy--give one and take ten.”
Mark Twain Quotes
“A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol.”
Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
“To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.”
Will Durant Quotes
“The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.”
Barry M. Goldwater Quotes
“A diplomat is a man who remembers a lady's birthday but forgets her age.”
Anonymous Quotes
“... the patriotic art of lying for one's country.”
Ambrose Bierce Quotes
“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 Quotes
“This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whims.”
James Reston Quotes
“American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet.”
Charles G. Dawes Quotes
“Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes
“I never refuse. I contradict. I sometimes forget.”
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes