Diplomats Quotes

We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

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

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

All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.

The real secret about diplomats is that we're trained to say something, when there is nothing to say, and to say nothing when there is something to say.

When a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. When he says perhaps, he means no. When he says no, he is not a diplomat. When a lady says no, she means perhaps. When she says perhaps, she means yes. But when she says yes, she is no lady.

The basic quality for the diplomat is not intelligence but loyalty.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.

Michael Anthony is the Diplomat of Rock N Roll. He is the regular guy.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Even when I was at CIA, I'd go to visit foreign leaders and I'd say, 'You know, I'm not a diplomat. I'm just an old CIA guy'... I said, 'If I wanted to be diplomatic, I'd have been a diplomat.'

A diplomat these days is nothing but a head waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.

American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet.

I was never the diplomatic diplomat.

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

If a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. If he says perhaps he means no. And if he says no, he's the hell of a diplomat.

A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it.

Diplomacy, of course, is a subtle and nuanced craft, so much so that it's said that when the most wily diplomat of the nineteenth-century passed away, other diplomats asked, on reports of his death, "What do you suppose the old fox meant by that?

a diplomat ... is not worthy of the name unless he can say 'no' and make the other person like it - or at least not be offended by it.

There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going, when they seem going they come: diplomats, women, and crabs.

The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.

Timing: The alpha and omega of aerialists, jugglers, actors, diplomats, publicists, generals, prizefighters, revolutionists, financiers, dictators, lovers.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

God, a born extremist, is the diplomat's worst enemy. Quite apart from the fact that His decrees are irrevocable, the Absolute will not allow anyone to relativize matters.