A skilled diplomat rarely generates extreme reactions.
A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
My advice to any diplomat who wants to have good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
A diplomat these days is nothing but a head waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.
Diplomats do not know how to negotiate, they only know how to keep their job.
They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.
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?
We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.
Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.
My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.
I was never the diplomatic diplomat.
A diplomat had been kidnapped, a cabinet minister had been kidnapped, they were under threats of murder. The police forces were rather tired. After a whole week, we were unable to find those that had effected the kidnappings.
Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.
People also don't care about the daily comings and goings of diplomats and yet we must report it.
It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them.
Originally I wanted to be a diplomat, and by attrition I started giving up that idea.
Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
Michael Anthony is the Diplomat of Rock N Roll. He is the regular guy.
The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war.
International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smoldering one
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