Diplomacy Quote by A.E. Samaan

“Sometimes it's best not to examine someone's intentions, and just take them for the asshole they really are.”

— Kyle Labe

“...too many facts hamper a diplomat, especially an honest one.” “I’m not especially honest.” “But you have no talent for dishonesty, so your refuge…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Sometimes, there is only a thin line between diplomacy and a lie.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Honesty does not make a man less of a tyrant.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“The vulgar might laugh at the Foreign Office, but there was no doubt it taught you how to deal with difficult people.”

— William Somerset Maugham

“He was so diplomatic he hardly spoke at all...”

— Dave Duncan

“there would always be incompetent assholes in the world ... and many of them would be in places of power.”

— Christopher Nuttall

“Diplomats and politicians, blowing with the wind. No substance, no beliefs, no real friendships.”

— Andrew Crofts

“Sometimes, the people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials, but the ones with the concern.”

— Max Lucado

“You mean beyond the obvious drawbacks of being involved with a self-proclaimed and unapologetic asshole?”

— Qwen Salsbury

“especially as they did not trust one another.”

— Thucydides

“Ambassadors, of course, do not blush. It is a requisite of the job that they can sustain any manner of insult without any visible…

— Sarah Dunant