Ivanka Trump Quotes

You can't always say what you'd like to say.

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

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

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

It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

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.

I don't know what goes on behind my back... I always feel like, if you don't have anything good to say, then don't say anything.

There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.

I always mean what I say, but I don't always say what I'm thinking.

I have to chose my words carefully.

No politician has ever been defeated by a speech he didn’t give.

Patience. Patience. Patience. The first, and last, and the middle virtue of a politician.

In politics you'll never get into trouble by not saying too much.

He learned too much and too early that victory goes to the discreet, that one does not speak one's opinion, that ideally one does not even develop one's opinion.

… in politics, just as anywhere else in life, it is impossible and it would not be sensible always to say everything bluntly. Yet that does not mean one has to lie. What is needed here are tact, instinct and good taste.

Just because you can say things that are uncivil does not mean that your should say things that are uncivil.

One thing I like to tell founders is the more you talk, the more you have an opportunity to say something that people don't like. Talk less, and it will probably be better.

To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent.

There is no diplomacy like silence.

Dishonesty is not the only alternative to honesty. There is also the highly underrated virtue of shutting up.

Have you ever heard the phrase, it is better to keep your mouth closed and have people wonder if you are stupid than open it and remove all doubt? (Hakim al Harbi)

All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.

... it does not do to tell great people anything unpleasant.