“Often I must Speak otherwise than I Think. This is Called Diplomacy.”
“I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.”
“That wasn't English she was speaking: it was the language of diplomacy.”
“Page 134 Florence Nightengale is speaking to William MonkOf course. If you know the truth, it takes a gentler and perhaps a wiser woman than Purdence Barrymore not to speak it aloud. She did not understand the arts of diplomacy. I fear that perhaps I do not either. The sick cannot wait for flattery and coercion to do their work.”
“To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.”
“Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.”