Quotes About Diplomacy

It's time to recognize what compromise means: no side wins or loses all.

This is a time that calls for extreme restraint. In a world of outright aggression and violence there can be no winners. To respond to violence with counter-violence only throws oil on the fire.

Pakistan is running away from talks which will be held only when we get reply. Time available is only tonight.

Now is not the time to open the border to receive Canadian beef down to the United States.

We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.

She was keeping out of the quarrel.

But I can see that a little hypocrisy gets me a lot further than my old method of saying exactly what I think (even though no one ever asks my opinion or cares one way or another). Of

Only the language of civilized people may be spoken, thus no German.

A little hypocrisy gets me a lot further than my old method of saying exactly what I think.

It's easier to flatter a man than fight him.

Page 134 Florence Nightengale is speaking to William Monk Of course. If you know the truth, it takes a gentler and perhaps a wiser woman than Purdence Barrymore not to speak it aloud. She did not understand the arts of diplomacy. I fear that perhaps I do not either. The sick cannot wait for flattery and coercion to do their work.

Remember, my dear, you are dealing with the world as it is, not as you believe, maybe rightly, that it ought to be. There will be a great many things you can achieve not by attacking them but with a little patience and a modicum of flattery

Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely.

If you really want peace in any world you have to learn to say nothing.

Messages continued to arrive from the Earl of Warwick, urging Londoners to hold firm for King Harry. Marguerite d'Anjou and her son were expected to land at any time, while from St Albans, Edward sent word that Harry of Lancaster was to be considered a prisoner of state. At that, John Stockton, the Mayor of London, contracted a diplomatic virus and took to his bed.

You might as well face it. You're not going to be able to fight for the crown. You'll just have to grit your teeth and let us hand it over to you at the bargaining table.

in turn, had agreed to end the continuing

He was too astute a politician, too ambitious a Prince, to confuse friendship with statecraft.

In debate he thought high and aimed low.

Between opponents who will not physically fight, a punch line is equivalent to a punch.

Trudeau's Willy Brandt moment needs to find its British echo.

I, for one, dearly hope that a British prime minister will find the heart, and the spirit, to get on his or her knees at Jallianwala Bagh in 2019 and beg forgiveness from Indians in the name of his or her people for the unforgivable massacre

This claim might seem to be an appeal to the old doctrine of "reason of state," which asserted that when issues of war and diplomacy were at stake, those who were responsible for the safety of the nation should be allowed a freer hand, greater discretionary power, to meet external threats without being hampered by the uncertainty attending the cumbersome and time-consuming legitimating processes of legislatures or courts.

Decirle a la gente lo que realmente piensas es a menudo una idea malísima. Como solía decir la abuela, la gente sensata vierte aceite en aguas revueltas, no nitroglicerina.