Isaac Goldberg quotes

Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest thing in the nicest way.
-- Isaac Goldberg

#Way #Diplomacy

A woman tries to get all she can out of a man, and a man tries to get all he can into a woman.
-- Isaac Goldberg

#Men #Cynical #Trying

There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.
-- Isaac Goldberg

#Theatre #World #Stage

Grammar school never taught me anything about grammar.
-- Isaac Goldberg

#School #Taught #Grammar

In the last stage of the spiritual master's life, the devotees of the spiritual master should take preaching activities into their own hands. In this way the spiritual master can sit down in a solitary place and render nirjana-bhajana.

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental?

When diplomacy ends, War begins.

Reporting Iran's dossier to the UN Security Council will be unconstructive and the end of diplomacy.

Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace--but a peace I hope with honour.

Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time

Gardening?is one of the most underrated aspects of diplomacy.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

I would love to see no more ghettos but the things is, there's no diplomacy in the ghetto. They want to tell you something, they tell you straight!