20 quotes found
“A timid question will always receive a confident answer.”
“"Let us agree not to step on each other's feet " said the cock to the horse.”
“If a person has no delicacy he has you in his power.”
“Tact is the intelligence of the heart.”
“Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden not silence.”
“Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.”
“A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages.”
“Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.”
“Diplomacy the art of saying 'nice doggie' till you can find a rock.”
“If any pilgrim monk come from distant parts with wish as a guest to dwell in the monastery and will be content with the customs which he finds in the place and does not perchance by his lavishne...”
“An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.”
“Women and foxes being weak are distinguished by superior tact.”
“To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact talk to every woman as if you loved her and to every man as if he bored you.”
“If any pilgrim monk come from distant parts with wish as a guest to dwell in the monastery and will be content with the customs which he finds in the place and does not perchance by his lavishness ...”
