193 Quotes About Diplomacy

You have no idea how much it contributes to the general politeness and pleasantness of diplomacy when you have a little quiet armed force in the background

What a shame swear words aren't allowed in diplomacy.

It's a time-honored truism of diplomacy that the most resented epithet is the one most accurately depicting the deficiencies of the recipient.

Military strategy...has become the diplomacy of violence.

What good is a smooth tongue without sharp teeth?

Válka je jen pokračování diplomacie jinými prostředky.

Oh, diplomacy," said M.D., in his element, "it mops up war's spillages; legitimizes its outcomes; gives the strong state the means to impose its will on a weaker one, while saving its fleets and battalions for weightier opponents.

We have war when at least one of the partes to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

A well-trained diplomat is supposed to write French, for example, like an angel, but to speak it with the peculiar gutlessness of a Geneva nancy-boy.