diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one’s country.
– Ambrose Bierce
Related Quotes:
- You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done. – Kofi Annan
- If there is no justice in a country, who can claim that, that country is a country? An injustice country is just a rubbish bin! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Fear has no brains it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated. – Ambrose Bierce
- acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. – Ambrose Bierce
- ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith. – Ambrose Bierce
- AMNESTY, n. The state’s magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish. – Ambrose Bierce
- POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. – Ambrose Bierce
- GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism. – Ambrose Bierce
- You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. – Ambrose Bierce
- BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. – Ambrose Bierce
- History -“ An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. – Ambrose Bierce
- God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past. – Ambrose Bierce
- Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity. – Ambrose Bierce
- Marriage, n.: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. – Ambrose Bierce
- Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. – Ambrose Bierce
- Unacquainted with grief, I knew not how to appraise my bereavement; I could not rightly estimate the strength of the stroke. – Ambrose Bierce
- Ah, children of the sunlight and the gaslight, how little you know of the world in which you live! – Ambrose Bierce
- So I say a name, even if self-bestowed, is better than a number. In the register of the potter’s field I shall soon have both. What wealth! – Ambrose Bierce
- Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. – Ambrose Bierce
- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be. – Ambrose Bierce
- The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff. – Ambrose Bierce
- In the presence of death reason and philosophy are silent – Ambrose Bierce
- A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else. – Ambrose Bierce
- Apologize: To lay the foundation for a future offence. – Ambrose Bierce
- As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world. – Virginia Woolf
- A great Country is not the Country with a great population,but a Country with a great number of persons that believe in entrepreneurship. – AuliqIce
- The art of diplomacy is finding a reasonable route among imperfect alternatives. – Robert Dallek
- Diplomacy is the art of getting what you want without offending anyone too badly. – Christopher Nutall
- When you start lying, you stop building trust. When you stop lying, you start building trust. – Saji Ijiyemi
- Perfection is a lie, and lying to others is explicable but lying to oneself is the highest form of deceit. – Chinonye J Chidolue
- Lying is one of the worst of all sins and can be committed by a thought, word, or deed. Anything that is intended to deceive another person is lying. – Billy Graham
- … I’ve run out of options. Stay with the lying psycho or work for the other lying psycho. – HM Ward
- Art for art’s sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804) – Benjamin Constant
- I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m going to make art! Art arty art art. – Andy Beirsack
- The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic. – Jeannette Rankin
- She felt as buoyantly patriotic as her Chechen classmates who could trace their family trees back to the acorns – Anthony Marra
- …she cried because prejudice outlives passion and because she was sentimentally patriotic. – Irne Nmirovsky
- He wouldn’t hear of anybody’s paying taxes, though he was very patriotic. – Charles ens
- Discourses, which are mostly wrapped in spurious religious and patriotic ideologies that ignite the enthusiasm of the ignorant masses – Aziz Hamza
- It didn’t get much more patriotic than sex in a Chevy on the Fourth of July. God bless America. – Kate Meader