Diplomacy quotes

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◆ A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

- Robert Frost100

◆ Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.

- Will Rogers99

◆ If you can't go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it

- Ashleigh Brilliant99

◆ Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.

- Isaac Goldberg99

◆ The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten

- Mark Twain99

◆ Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.

- Daniel Pipes99

◆ If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now.

- Richard Perle99

◆ There is no diplomacy like candor.

- Edward V Lucas99

◆ Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

- Henry A Kissinger99

◆ Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.

- John Bolton99

◆ I don't think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy.

- Douglas Feith99

◆ Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time.

- Bo Bennett99

◆ All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

- Tony Benn99

◆ In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid.

- Lincoln Chafee99

◆ There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy

- Mark Twain99