Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.

The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign dealings are an open book, generally a check book.

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

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.