A Quote by Winston Churchill

Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.

Winston Churchill

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Winston Churchill
British - Statesman
November 30, 1874 - January 24, 1965

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

Winston Churchill

...William wondered why he always disliked people who said 'no offense meant.' Maybe it was because they found it easier to to say 'no offense meant' than actually to refrain from giving offense.

Terry Pratchett

Telling the truth - telling thoughtful truths - should not be a revolutionary act. Speaking truths to power should not be sacrificial, but they are.

Luvvie Ajayi

Diplomacy - the art of jumping into trouble without making a splash.

Art Linkletter

My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.

Laura Riding

The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to be in the world (of social convention) but not of the world.

Alan Watts

Part of diplomacy, the hard work of diplomacy is trying to extract whatever concessions you can get, and giving something the other side wants. Of course you've got to try to make peace with, and work with those who are your adversaries, but you don't just rush in, open the door, and say, "Here I am. Let's talk and make a deal."

Hillary Clinton

I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.

Laurance Rockefeller

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.

Mary McCarthy

Anchor your faith in the plain and simple truths of the gospel.

Gerald Causse

Diplomacy, n : 1. The patriotic art of lying for one's country. 2. The art of letting someone have your way. 3. The art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a rock. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Robert Frost

We've reached a point where we are not a very empathetic people, and art without empathy is art without an audience. My basic viewpoint is that without art we're alone.

Jamake Highwater

You can be very honest without telling the truth, at least in art.

Jason Isbell

Edwidge Danticat's prose has a Chekhovian simplicity--an ability to state the most urgent truths in a measured and patiently plain style that gathers a luminous energy as it moves inexorably forward. In this book she makes a strong case that art, for immigrants from countries where human rights and even survival are often in jeopardy, must be a vocation to witness if it is not to be an idle luxury.