Diplomacy
Definition: The profession, activity, or skill of managing international relations, typically by a country's representatives abroad.
Number of Quotes: 11
Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
Dean Acheson
I do not regard the procuring of peace as a matter in which we should play the role of arbiter between
different opinions ... more that of an honest broker who really wants to press the business forward.
Otto von Bismarck
Meeting jaw to jaw is better than war.
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*Attribution questionable.
Winston Churchill
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
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*Attribution questionable.
Winston Churchill
All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.
Zhou Enlai
Diplomacy is to do and say
The nastiest thing in the nicest way.
Isaac Goldberg
Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.
Daniel Pipes
Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it.
Will Rogers
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.
Caskie Stinnett
To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely
the same in both cases. To know how much oil one must mix with one's vinegar.
Oscar Wilde
An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
Henry Wotton
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