Definition of Diplomacy

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Diplomacy

The art and practice of conducting negotiations between nations (particularly in securing treaties), including the methods and forms usually employed.

Dexterity or skill in securing advantages; tact.

The body of ministers or envoys resident at a court; the diplomatic body.

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Diplomacy Quotations

Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
Will Rogers

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.
Will Rogers

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers

For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America.
George W. Bush

The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt the door at once.
Andrew Jackson

There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.
John Kenneth Galbraith

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
Will Durant

Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.
Alvin Adams

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.
Henry A. Kissinger

We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations.
Mahmoud Abbas

Diplomacy Translations

diplomacy in French is diplomatie
diplomacy in German is Diplomatie
diplomacy in Italian is diplomazia
diplomacy in Spanish is diplomacia
diplomacy in Swedish is diplomati

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