Quotes About Manoeuvring

Diplomacy without sagacity and manoeuvring is like music without instruments.

Diplomacy without sagacity and prudent manoeuvring is like music without instruments.

Never concentrating so hard than when manoeuvring a full cup of tea whilst lying down.

am fully convinced that it is impossible for a woman, even if she were born close to a throne, to acquire before the age of five-and-twenty the encyclopaedic knowledge of trifles, the practice of manoeuvring, the important small things, the musical tones and harmony of coloring, the angelic bedevilments and innocent cunning, the speech and the silence, the seriousness and the banter, the wit and the obtuseness, the diplomacy and the ignorance which make up the perfect lady.