“Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“Speak softly and carry a big stick you will go far.”
― Theodore Roosevelt  

“Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.” 
- Warren W. Wiersbe

“Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.”
― Winston S. Churchill

 “Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.”
― Robin Hobb

 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

In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known. ~Thomas Pickering

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

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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. Robert Frost
	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. Caskie Stinnett
	A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally. Peter Ustinov
	A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages. Anonymous
	An ambassador is not simply an agent he is also a spectacle. Walter Bagehot
	Consul. In American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country. Ambrose Bierce
	Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way. Daniele Vare
	Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie!' till you can find a rock. Wynn Catlin
	Diplomacy is thinking twice before saying nothing. Anonymous
	Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way. Isaac Goldberg
	Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism. Barbara Tuchman
	Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains, they drown in every drop. Charles De Gaulle
	Diplomats were invented simply to waste time. David Lloyd George
	I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me. Di Cavour
	If you are to stand up for your Government you must be able to stand up to your Government. Lord Harold Caccia
	My advice to any diplomat who wants to have a good press is to have two or three kids and a dog. Carl Rowan
	Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died. Andrew Young
	Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries. Sir Henry Wotton
	There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished. John Kenneth Galbraith
	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. George Eliot