Diplomacy: The art of saying "nice doggie" until you can find a rock. ~Wynn Catlin


Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way. ~Daniele Vare


A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost


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, Out of the Red, 1960


Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop. ~Charles de Gaulle


Diplomacy is to do and say
The nastiest thing in the nicest way.
~Bisaac Goldberg


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


A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: Protocol, Geritol, and alcohol. ~Adlai E. Stevenson


A Foreign Secretary is forever poised between the cliché and the indiscretion. ~Harold MacMillan


An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth. ~Henry Wotton, Reliquiæ Wottonianæ


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


I must acknowledge, once and for all, that the purpose of diplomacy is to prolong a crisis. ~Star Trek, Mr. Spock