Logo
When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sig

When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. – Sun-Tzu

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Diplomacy
category

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun. – John D. Rockefeller

Category:
Diplomacy

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

Category:
Diplomacy

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

Category:
Diplomacy

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me. – Di Cavour

Category:
Diplomacy

Random Quotes

Wherever man has left his footprint in the long ascent from barbarism to civilization we will find the hoofprint of the horse beside it. – John Moore

Category:
Horses

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific. – Lily Tomlin

Category:
funny

Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them? – Charles de Secondat

Category:
Religion

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week. – Ezra Pound

Category:
Art