A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: Protocol, Geritol, and alcohol.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Diplomacy:
The business of handling a porcupine without disturbing the quills.
Author Unknown
When
a diplomat says yes he means perhaps; when he says perhaps he means no; when he
says no he is no diplomat.
Author Unknown
Diplomat:
A person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look
forward to the trip.
Caskie Stinett
An
ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.
Henry Wotton
I
must acknowledge, once and for all, that the purpose of diplomacy is to prolong
a crisis.
Star Trek
A
diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers
her age.
Robert Frost
A Foreign Secretary is forever poised between the cliché and the indiscretion.
Harold MacMillan
Diplomacy: The art of saying "nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
Wynn Catlin
Diplomats
are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every
drop.
Charles de Gaulle
Diplomacy
is the art of letting someone else have your way.
Daniele Vare
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