DIPLOMACY QUOTES III

quotations about diplomacy

I'd like to think the best bunker buster is a diplomat.

SCOTT RITTER

Memphis Flyer, May 3, 2008


In order to be a diplomat one must speak a number of languages, including double-talk.

CAREY MCWILLIAMS

attributed, Wise Words and Quotes


Diplomats should emulate musicians who never conduct foreign overtures without knowing the score.

VERNON K. MCLELLAN

Wise Words and Quotes


It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.

TOM CLANCY

The Hunt for Red October


These, then, are the qualities of my ideal diplomatist. Truth, accuracy, calm, patience, good temper, modesty and loyalty. They are also the qualities of an ideal diplomacy. But, the reader may object, you have forgotten intelligence, knowledge, discernment, prudence, hospitality, charm, industry, courage and even tact. I have not forgotten them. I have taken them for granted.

HAROLD GEORGE NICOLSON

Diplomacy


Diplomacy, if conducted sensibly, is a matter of small gains offset by small losses, an attempt to maintain a state of equilibrium in which catastrophes are either mitigated or, with luck, avoided entirely.

WILLIAM S. MALTBY

Alba: A Biography of Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Third Duke of Alba