| Author |
Quotes |
| Adlai E Stevenson | A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol. |
| Ambrose Bierce | International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smouldering one. |
| Ambrose Bierce | ... the patriotic art of lying for one's country. |
| Andrew Young | Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died. |
| Arthur J Goldberg | Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth. |
| Barry M Goldwater | The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place. |
| Benjamin Disraeli | I never refuse. I contradict. I sometimes forget. |
| Anonymous | A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to Hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. |
| Anonymous | A diplomat is a man who remembers a lady's birthday but forgets her age. |
| Caskie Stinnett | A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. |
| Charles G Dawes | American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet. |
| Daniele Vare | Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way. |
| David Lloyd George | Diplomats were invented simply to waste time. |
| Di Cavour | I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me. |
| George P Shultz | He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides. |
| Isaac Goldberg | Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way. |
| James Reston | This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whims. |
| John Fitzgerald Kennedy | Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. |
| Joseph Stalin | Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron. |
| Oliver Herford | Diplomacy: lying in state. |
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