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Quotes about Diplomacy


Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else get your way.

Building up arms is not a substitute for diplomacy.

Samuel Pisar

Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie!" till you can find a rock.

Wynn Catlin

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Tony Benn

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

Isaac Goldberg

DIPLOMACY, n. Lying in state, or the patriotic art of lying for one's country.

Ambrose Bierce

Diplomacy is thinking twice before saying nothing.

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Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron.

Joseph Stalin

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way.

Daniele Vare

All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.

Chou En-Lai

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

Andrew Young

Diplomacy: lying in state.

Oliver Herford

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

Mark Twain

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

Will Durant

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

American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet.

Charles G. Dawes

Dollar Diplomacy.

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

Isaac Goldberg

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

G. K. Chesterton

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. •Benito Mussolini In time of war the first casualty is truth. •Boake Carter Only the defeated and deserters go to war. •Henry David Thoreau All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.

Benito Mussolini

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