Diplomacy Quotes

Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron.

Josef Stalin

Diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.

Zhou En Lai

Violence is the diplomacy of the incompetent.

Isaac Asimov, Prelude to Foundation, said by Hari Seldon

Diplomacy is the art of knowing what not to say.

Matthew Trump, in Mother Earth News

Diplomacy: lying in state.

Oliver Hereford

In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.

Thomas Pickering

The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

E. V. Lucas

Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.

Frederick the Great

Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest thing in the nicest way.

Isaac Goldberg

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Will Rogers