Art Of Diplomacy Quotes & Sayings

Every form of true education trains the student in self-reliance — John Henrik Clarke

Interesting thing, these fellows never seem to get the idea of perspective-'
The Bursar thought, or received the thought: that's because perspective is a lie. If I know a pond is round then why should I draw it oval? I will draw it round because round is true. Why should my brush lie to you just because my eye lies to me? — Terry Pratchett

Diplomacy is the art of letting the other party have things your way. — Daniele Vare

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions. — Winston S. Churchill

Diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country. — Ambrose Bierce

Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense. — Winston Churchill

Nobody is offered a World Cup. — Abby Wambach

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

Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies. — Kofi Abrefa Busia

In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead. — David Amram

When diplomacy fails, whisper through Art and your message will echo for eternity. — Tom Althouse

Feel no fear before the multitude of men, do not run in panic,
but let each man bear his shield straight toward the fore-fighters,
regarding his own life as hateful and holding the dark spirits of death as dear as the radiance of the sun. — Tyrtaeus

Diplomacy is the art of letting other people have your way. — Daniele Vare

'Musician' is not a very respected title. I'm not a musician. — Lydia Lunch

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock. — Will Rogers

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

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

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

War is the art of killing each other brutally, diplomacy is the art of killing each other softly. — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Diplomacy: the art of jumping into trouble without making a splash. — Art Linkletter

The art of diplomacy is finding a reasonable route among imperfect alternatives. — Robert Dallek

Diplomacy is also the art of postponing decisions until the problems resolve themselves. — Paulo Coelho

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

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

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

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

Is this my best team ever? I won't know that for another 20 years or so. — Amos Alonzo Stagg

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

Moody had no small genius for the art of diplomacy. As a child he had known instinctively that it was always better to tell a partial truth with a willing aspect than to tell a perfect truth in a defensive way. The appearance of cooperation was worth a great deal, if only because it forced a reciprocity, fair met with fair. — Eleanor Catton

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

I think a lot more people are starting to understand the power of YouTube. — Zoe Sugg

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power. — Henry A. Kissinger

The art of diplomacy is the luck of knowing more of your rival's secrets than he knows of yours. — Robin Hobb