Diplomacy: The art of saying "nice doggie" until you can find a rock. ~Wynn Catlin
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way. ~Daniele Vare
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
Diplomat: A person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. ~Caskie Stinett, Out of the Red, 1960
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop. ~Charles de Gaulle
Diplomacy is to do and say
The nastiest thing in the nicest way.
~Bisaac Goldberg
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
A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: Protocol, Geritol, and alcohol. ~Adlai E. Stevenson
A Foreign Secretary is forever poised between the cliché and the indiscretion. ~Harold MacMillan
An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth. ~Henry Wotton, Reliquiæ Wottonianæ
Diplomacy: The business of handling a porcupine without disturbing the quills. ~Author Unknown
I must acknowledge, once and for all, that the purpose of diplomacy is to prolong a crisis. ~Star Trek, Mr. Spock
"Charm" - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm. ~Havelock Ellis
Charm is... a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956
Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. ~Oliver Herford
Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. ~Henri Frédéric Amiel
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others. ~Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. ~James Matthew Barrie, What Every Woman Knows, about charm
There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough. ~Josh Billings
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. ~Oscar Wilde
Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others. ~John Mason Brown
There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament. ~Henry Van Dyke
Forbidden things have a secret charm. ~Publius Cornelius Tacitus
There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me. ~John Erskine