Diplomacy

(125 votes)   Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

David Lloyd George
1863-1945, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(111 votes)   Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains, they drown in every drop.

Charles De Gaulle
1890-1970, French President during World War II

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(89 votes)   To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.

George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist

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(79 votes)   Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way.

Daniele Vare

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(79 votes)   There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.

John Kenneth Galbraith
1908-, American Economist

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(78 votes)   A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages.

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(73 votes)   When a diplomat says yes he means perhaps; when he says perhaps he means no; when he says no he is no diplomat.

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(72 votes)   If you are to stand up for your Government you must be able to stand up to your Government.

Lord Harold Caccia

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(69 votes)   My advice to any diplomat who wants to have a good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.

Carl Rowan
1925-, American Journalist, 'The man'

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(68 votes)   Diplomacy is thinking twice before saying nothing.

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(62 votes)   Diplomacy is the art of saying ''Nice doggie!'' till you can find a rock.

Wynn Catlin

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(57 votes)   We are the greatest power in the world. If we behave like it.

Walt W. Rostow

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