This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
Diplomat - Diplomacy Quotes
Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it. You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.
Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.
Diplomacy is to do and say – The nastiest thing in the nicest way.
All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.
Diplomacy, n. Lying in state, or the patriotic art of lying for one’s country.
