Diplomacy Quotes

For many years, Myanmar's leadership was largely shut out from the world of international diplomacy.

Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden not silence.

Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden not silence.

Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden not silence.

Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden not silence.

Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden not silence.

Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden not silence.

Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden not silence.

Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden not silence.

Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking....

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.

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

But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord.""It might to keep it open.

Eastward and westward storms are breaking,--great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. ...

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

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

If a person has no delicacy he has you in his power.

the very least we can live with is an agreement that does not reduce us to slaves of imposition, but...

As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignoranc...

Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its...

The Communist leaders respect only firmness and have contempt for persons who continually give in to...

To stomp about the world ignoring cultural differences is arrogant, to be sure, but perhaps there is...

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

1. Bangladesh.... In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani genera...

British diplomats and Anglo-American types in Washington have a near-superstitious prohibition on ut...

Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of ...

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

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

History is littered with the wars everybody knew could never happen.

You have no idea how much it contributes to the general politeness and pleasantness of diplomacy whe...

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin sl...

An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.

One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of gover...

Where are Haldad my father, and Haldad my brother? If the king of Doriath fears a friendship between...

Try to be pleasant to one another, get plenty of fresh air, read a good book now and then, depose yo...

You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sa...

War is failure of diplomacy.

You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.