193 Quotes About Diplomacy

That’s the key to walking through the Wall.... You have to first see it as not being a Wall, even though everyone you know still sees it as a Wall.

...unlike Champions, Godmothers don't have to keep undergoing ridiculous ordeals every time one turns around. Our idea of besting a dragon is not to chop it into bits, but to get it to sit down to tea.

Dinner was a comedy of diplomacy.

Humanity is united in its essential nature and is divided only in those things that are of secondary importance.

When my passions flare, diplomacy is not my métier

An hour of innocence builds more trust than years of diplomacy.

A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.

People who keep their feelings to themselves tend not to know, after a while, what their feelings are.

Politicians become statesmen, not by honoring pious shibboleths, nor even by moving [people] to action with inspiring rhetoric, but by recognizing and then resolving the central dilemmas of their age.