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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~
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Diplomacy: The business of handling a porcupine without disturbing the quills. ~
~ All war represents a failure of diplomacy ~
~ Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war. ~
~ Diplomacy: The art of saying "nice doggie" until you can find a rock. ~
~ Diplomacy - The art of letting other people achieve your ends ~
~ Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. ~
~ 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. ~
~ A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: Protocol, Geritol, and alcohol. ~
~ DIPLOMACY, n. Lying in state, or the patriotic art of lying for one's country. ~
~ To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. ~
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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop. ~