Diplomacy Quotes and Sayings

The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war – diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power – and we are developing new tools as we go along.
- Richard Armitage

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
- Charles de Gaulle

The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
- Lajos Kossuth

A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor’s throat without having his neighbor notice it.
- Trygve Lie

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 Rogers

He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.
- George P. Shultz

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
- Robert Frost

Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.
- W. Averell Harriman

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 Perle

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

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
- Tony Benn

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
- Caskie Stinnett

We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations.
- Mahmoud Abbas

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

The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key… and bolt the door at once.
- Andrew Jackson

An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.
- Henry Wotton

I don’t think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy.
- Douglas Feith

International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smouldering one.
- Ambrose Bierce

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
- Daniele Vare

I never refuse I contradict. I sometimes forget.
- Benjamin Disraeli

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