Diplomacy sayings

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◆ The art of diplomacy starts with the heart of diplomacy which is to find a peaceable solution.

- Jordan Blake Michiels99

◆ Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for the directions!!

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◆ All war represents a failure of diplomacy

- Tony Benn99

◆ 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.

- Will Rogers99

◆ A diplomat who says yes means maybe, a diplomat who says maybe means no, and a diplomat who says no is no diplomat.

- Charles M De Talleyrand99

◆ I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy

- Anna Quindlen99

◆ Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

- Will Smith99

◆ Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree

- Dean Acheson99

◆ Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

- Charles De Gaulle99

◆ 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 Bourne99

◆ A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.

- Moliere99

◆ To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

- Will Durant99

◆ A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it.

- Trygve Lie99

◆ Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

- Otto Von Bismarck99

◆ Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way.

- Daniele Vare99