Quotes About Diplomacy

Lucy was suffering from the most grievous wrong which this world has yet discovered: diplomatic advantage had been taken of her sincerity, of her craving for sympathy and love. Such a wrong is not easily forgotten. Never again did she expose herself without due consideration and precaution against rebuff. And such a wrong may react disastrously upon the soul.

Lucy was suffering from the most grievous wrong which this world has yet discovered: diplomatic advantage had been taken of her sincerity, of her craving for sympathy and love.

Her life, he saw, was without meaning. To what purpose was her diplomacy, her insincerity, her continued repression of vigour? Did they make any one better or happier? Did they even bring happiness to herself? Harriet with her gloomy peevish creed, Lilia with her clutches after pleasure, were after all more divine than this well-ordered, active, useless machine.

The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.

Truth or tact You have to choose. Most times they are not compatible.

Russians accuse Mao of seeking "world holocaust.

Children should be seen and not heard,' my mother contributed grimly, ganging up on me. That was the worst part, having her join the enemy. I knew it was her idea of diplomacy, and that it probably stemmed from cowardice, but to me it was simple betrayal, selling out her own child for the sake of peace.

We have earned the slogan, "Yanks, go home!"

All governments require enemy governments.

True, This! — Beneath the rule of men entirely great The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold The arch-enchanters wand! — itself is nothing! — But taking sorcery from the master-hand To paralyse the Cæsars, and to strike The loud earth breathless! — Take away the sword — States can be saved without it!

The pen is mightier than the sword! a

But wait till Ike had to deal with de Gaulle, whom I had seen in the Middle East. Giraud then would seem to Ike the acme of rational and complaisant Frenchmen.

Diplomacy: The business of handling a porcupine without disturbing the quills.

First, their countries seek no aggrandizement, territorial or other.Second, they desire to see no territorial changes that do not accord with the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned.

The Ugly American

In proportion as the antagonism between classes within the nation vanishes, the hostility of one nation to another will come to an end.

A enemigo que huye puente de plata [If your enemy turns to flee, give him a silver bridge].

I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.

The easiest way to save face is to keep the lower half shut.

Give to all nations unity, peace, and concord.

If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.

To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.

Having our own ambassador making these statements about Karimov is acutely embarrassing. It's bad for British business interests, it's bad for the stability in the region. I mean, he sends back these dossiers full of stories of what Karimov's security forces have supposed to have done, he sends them to the foreign office or whatever, he sends them directly to us, I mean does he think I'm going to read it, does he imagine that I'm interested in this stuff?