Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

I never refuse. I contradict. I sometimes forget.

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet.

Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy

A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it.

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to Hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

DIPLOMACY, n. Lying in state, or the patriotic art of lying for one's country.

International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smouldering one.

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.