quotations about diplomacy
I'd like to think the best bunker buster is a diplomat.
SCOTT RITTER
Memphis Flyer, May 3, 2008
It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.
TOM CLANCY
The Hunt for Red October
In order to be a diplomat one must speak a number of languages, including double-talk.
CAREY MCWILLIAMS
attributed, Wise Words and Quotes
Diplomats should emulate musicians who never conduct foreign overtures without knowing the score.
VERNON K. MCLELLAN
Wise Words and Quotes
These, then, are the qualities of my ideal diplomatist. Truth, accuracy, calm, patience, good temper, modesty and loyalty. They are also the qualities of an ideal diplomacy. But, the reader may object, you have forgotten intelligence, knowledge, discernment, prudence, hospitality, charm, industry, courage and even tact. I have not forgotten them. I have taken them for granted.
HAROLD GEORGE NICOLSON
Diplomacy
Diplomacy, if conducted sensibly, is a matter of small gains offset by small losses, an attempt to maintain a state of equilibrium in which catastrophes are either mitigated or, with luck, avoided entirely.
WILLIAM S. MALTBY
Alba: A Biography of Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Third Duke of Alba