Art Of Diplomacy Quotes

#1. The art of diplomacy is finding a reasonable route among imperfect alternatives.

Robert Dallek

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

Will Durant

#3. The art of diplomacy is often to tell someone you want to be their best friend, but failing that, you might have to destroy them. It's kind of like Christianity. Congressman Lance Boyd.

Jayden Hunter

#4. The art of diplomacy is the luck of knowing more of your rival's secrets than he knows of yours.

Robin Hobb

#5. The world you live in is 100 percent your own responsibility. If you don't like your world, it doesn't work to say, "Well, it's my mother's fault. She taught me how to think."

Byron Katie

#6. Oh, that I do know ... Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without.

Suzanne Collins

#7. Diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

Ambrose Bierce

#8. For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom, nor for the uncontrolled is there the power of concentration; and for him without concentration there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful, how can there be happiness? - BHAGAVAD GITA

Joe Hyams

#9. Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

Winston S. Churchill

#10. Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.

Thom Mayne

#11. It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.

Alain-Rene Lesage

#12. When diplomacy fails, whisper through Art and your message will echo for eternity.

Tom Althouse

#13. A writer's place in a nation's literary history cannot be judged by whether or not he is capable of writing a book as heavy as a brick. That must rest on his contributions to the development and enrichment of that nation's language.

Mo Yan

#14. Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.

David Frost

#15. Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Henry A. Kissinger

#16. Neal didn't like to be asked things. It made his jaw tense. He'd give you a flippant answer. Like, whatever you were asking, it wasn't any of your business.
Like nothing was anyone's business.
Like nobody should ask questions that didn't absolutely need to be answered.

Rainbow Rowell

#17. Diplomacy is also the art of postponing decisions until the problems resolve themselves.

Paulo Coelho

#18. If diplomacy is the art of persuading others to act as we would wish, effective foreign policy requires that we comprehend why others act as they do

Madeleine K. Albright

#19. Diplomacy: the art of jumping into trouble without making a splash.

Art Linkletter

#20. Diplomacy is the art of letting the other party have things your way.

Daniele Vare

#21. Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and think of what could go right.

Yoana Dianika

#22. Frankly, most governments are used to lying to each other - to a degree that most people would find shocking. Part of diplomacy is the art of strategic lying.

Jonathan Turley

#23. War is the art of killing each other brutally, diplomacy is the art of killing each other softly.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#24. Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.

Winston Churchill

#25. Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies.

Kofi Abrefa Busia

#26. Diplomacy may very well be the art of manipulating secrets. What would any negotiation come to, were not there secrets to either share or withhold?

Robin Hobb

#27. Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

Will Rogers

#28. 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

#29. I am certain that the safest way to defend your character is never to say a word about it.

Charles Spurgeon

#30. The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor.

Sherwood Anderson

#31. If someone is willing to help you understand your own worth when you're vulnerable, that's a very touching thing. It makes you want to help other people.

Jewel

#32. I know my sister," said Sebastian. "And not now, but soon enough I'll know her every way you can know someone.

Cassandra Clare

#33. Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.

Daniele Vare

#34. The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Sun Tzu

#35. True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most.

Mahatma Gandhi

#36. For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.

Miguel De Cervantes

#37. He does all research now, but he put me on some medication, Zoloft, and, I tell you what, a lot of people have had pros and cons about it, but it was my wonder drug.

Tanya Tucker

#38. Diplomacy is the art of letting other people have your way.

Daniele Vare