Quotes About Diplomacy

The secret is to always let the other man have your way.

It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.

Though I never shout at Labour Members or insult them, I can never understand the psychology of some of our men who endeavoured to reason with them.

The Ability to influence people without irritating them is the most profitable art known to man.

On Foreign Secretary Robin Cook: If a man cannot keep a measly affair secret, what is he doing in charge of the Intelligence Service?

...that great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age.

The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.

I have in mind repeated statements by Japanese military men containing threats against other states.

Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.

No man has ever praised to persons equally-and pleased them both.

What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.

In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy.

Ambassadors are honest men sent abroad to lie for their countries.

One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.

The man who bows before the ruler, shows his behind to the courtiers

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.

As a well-known great man would have said if he had thought of it, "Don't go around offending people just because it can be done sitting down."

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

Nelson Mandela and myself had a wonderful relationship - he was a special man and will be missed.

The art of negotiation is perhaps what most deeply distinguishes man from the animals, and it is this art and this will to negotiate that has brought man forward, elevated him beyond the animals.

The President so far has struck me as a man who is trying hard to keep his balance. He certainly has been very receptive to all my efforts in these directions.

We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships.

Israel rightly pointed out that Yasser Arafat was an unrepentant terrorist and

But Decebalus was not one to be cowed easily, and still showed his spirit by taunting the Romans. As Trajan reached the Iron Gates, Decebalus sent him a warning inscribed rather surprisingly, according to Dio Cassius, on 'a large mushroom'. This was probably a mushroom-shaped dish used for ritual purposes, and sadly not the only instance in history of diplomatic correspondence by fungi. The inscription advised Trajan to turn back and 'keep the peace'.22