Quotes of Diplomacy World In Diplomacy, especially when based around a club such as Diplomacy World, a posting can make the difference between an ally and an enemy. Diplomacy players use creative vernacular to express their thoughts and opinions. Here are some quotes pulled from the rush of messages and posts throughout Diplomacy World. The battle of words has begun…

"Gee, I'm shivering in fear, where's my teddy bear." - Coda De West (Post 23)

"Bacchus, DON'T YOU EVER QUESTION THE MIGHTY ARCHD... oops wrong club." - Archduke Gareth, (Post 63)

"hmmm..... this sounds like a game I would truly love.. complete and utter chaos. I am in." - Mrroderick (Post 64)

"Don't delay. Do it today! Civil Disorders are the bane of Diplomacy." - Coda De West (Post 186)

"From now on I'm thinking only of me." Major Danby replied indulgently with a superior smile,

"But, Yossarian, suppose everybody felt that way."

"Then I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?" From Catch 22, by Joseph Heller (provided by Coda De West: Post 204)

"It's stab-adelic, baby!" - Coda De West (Post 269)

"Clink-ink Clink-ink Clink-ink....Austriahh, come out and playeeayy...Austriahh, come out and playeeayy...Austriahh, come out and playeeayyy... Sorry couldn't resist :)" - Zoz (Post 340 Note: it is worth reading Post 341 about orders after ward)

"If you start to take Vienna -- take Vienna." - Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (provided by Coda De West: Post 382)

"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 (provided by Shakystephens: Post 386)

"Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (provided by Coda De West: Post 398)

"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies." - Oscar Wilde (provided by Coda De West: Post 421)

"A prince, therefore, who is wise and prudent, cannot or ought not to keep his word, when the keeping of it is to his prejudice, and the causes for which he promised removed." - Machiavelli (provided by Coda De West: Post 430)

"You see in order to prevent war, two great superarmies developed. Germany and Austria-Hungary on one side, the Russians, French and British on the other. The idea being that each army would act as each other's deterrent. However there was one slight flaw in the plan." - Captain Edmund Blackadder in "Blackadder Goes Forth" (1989) (provided by Coda De West: Post 472)

"Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' while searching for a rock." - Unknown (provided by Cgvyid: Post 473)

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!" - Peter Sellers from "Dr. Strangelove" (provided by Coda De West: Post 496)

"Always remember the golden rule of Diplomacy: Do unto others before they do unto you." - Mrroderick (Post 516)

"Good lord, Greenvi! It's okay to not keep score if it's a bunch of girls playing with their Barbie dolls. But beyond that, we keep score -- it's the American Way. From little league to shuffleboard at the senior citizen center. And losing sucks, and should suck. If we didn't keep score, you wouldn't know if you sucked or not. ….. That means your grandchildren might come here someday and see how well, or crappy you did. So you better do good." - Coda De West (Post 607)

"I segaknuckles promise to do my best to stick it out in every game I sign up for, to turn my orders in on time, to play to win or at least prevent someone else from winning, and to not carry grudges over from one game to another" - Segaknuckles (Post 730 - Note: the only player to take the DW Oath)

"The strong do what they can; the weak bear what they must." - Thucydides (provided by Coda De West: Post 875)

"If all men were good, this would be a bad precept, but since they are evil and would not keep a pledge to you, then you need not keep yours to them." - Machiavelli, The Prince Chapter XVIII (provided by Darreny111: Post 876)

"When the whole world is against you and you have no friends, there is little chance of success, but you must go on doing what you can, fulfilling your duty and, in the end, going down with honor." - Emperor Franz-Joseph (provided by Coda De West: Post 878)

"Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival." - Winston Churchill (provided by Vana_ad: Post 881)

"Speak softly and carry a big stick." - Theodore Roosevelt (provided by Mikederzwerg: Post 882)

"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft." -Theodore Roosevelt (provided by Vana_ad: Post 883)

"To be or not to be, THAT is the question!" - Shakespeare

"Doo bee doo bee doo!" - Frank Sinatra (both provided by Larstjelle: Post 885)

"The best plan does not survive first contact." - LTC R. Steve Whitcomb (now General Whitcomb), my Battalion Commander, before the attack on an Iraqi Republican Guards Unit at Medina Ridge. (provided by Czarr: Post 886)

" Do unto others as they would do unto you - but do it first! " - unknown Caveman (provided by Mikederzwerg: Post 889)

"Not honesty of structure, but the appearance of honesty, is what we are after." - Philip Johnson (1900-1964) (provided by Coda De West: Post 892)

"Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock." - Will Rogers (provided by Vana_ad: Post 893)

"I for one, will not be happy with allowing you a third place. Infact, I will allow you nothing short of DEATH. Good luck in your games.." - Panzertruppe: Post 919

"Even paranoids have enemies." - Henry Kissinger (provided by Coda De West: Post 943)

"In time of war the first casualty is truth." - Boake Carter (provided by Vana_ad: Post 945)

"Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat." -Hermann Goering, Chief of the German Air Force, in a radio broadcast 1936) (provided by Panzertruppe: Post 946)

"Why stab when you can cut throat?"-Alex Ludwig (provided by Panzertruppe: Post 947)

"The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood." - Alexander Haig (provided by Vana_ad: Post 948)

"When in doubt.....attack" -Danny Foreman (provided by Dan39_USN: Post 949)

"Damn the torpedoes...Full speed ahead." Admiral David Farragut (provided by Dan39_USN: Post 950)

"No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country." &

"A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week." - General George S. Patton (1885-1945) (provided by Vana_ad: Post 951)

"Stab me once, shame on you. Stab me twice, shame on me" - Unknown (provided by Coda De West: Post 952)

"I'm afraid that the problem is yours, Mr. Shaky. In my humble opinion, it's your browser that's flaky. I have no idea when and where it was made. But may I suggest you break-down and upgrade?" - Coda De West: Post 1004

"The harder you work, the luckier you get." - Gary Player (1935- ) (provided by Coda De West: Post 1005)

"To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day." - Winston Churchill (1874-1965) (provided by Vana_ad: Post 1007)

"War does not determine who is right - only who is left." -Bertrand Russell (provided by Coda De West: Post 1140)

"When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country." -Elayne Boosler (provided by Larstjelle: Post 1143 - on why DW has trouble getting more girls to join.)

"Women are the reason men go to War... 1) To get away from them 2) It's usually their idea...." - Dan39_USN: Post 1145

"In War, the Truth is so precious that she should always be accompanied by a bodyguard of Lies." Winston Churchill (provided by hisnibs159: Post 1146)

"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age." - Robert Frost (1874-1963) (provided by Vana_ad: Post 1156)

"And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge, With Ate by his side come hot from hell, Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war." - Marc Antony, referring to the recently back-stabbed Julius Caesar, (Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar" Act 3, Scene 1) (provided by Coda De West: Post 1163)

"The ends justify the means" - Nicolo Machiavelli (provided by Coda De West: Post 1267)

"a wise prince cannot and should not keep his pledge when it is against his interest to do so" Machiavelli The Prince (provided by Darreny111: Post 1280)

"If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!" ...you'll be a Man, my son!" Excerpts from If, by Rudyard Kipling (provided by Coda De West: Post 1305)

"If you cant dazzle them with dexterity, you can baffle them with bullshit!" - Nielssoerenpedersen: Post 1307

"The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made." - Jean Giraudoux (1882-1944) (provided by Coda De West: Post 1311)

"Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy." - Prime Minister Winston Churchill (provided by Vana_ad: Post 1347)

"Allies are tools to be used and discarded" (provided by Robertanderson_1999: Post 1354)

"I'm too logical to be a good negotiator. You need someone who is relentlessly irrational." - Dogbert (provided by Cgvyid: Post 1412)

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to Hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. (Anonymous) - (provided by Tanantan: Post 1527)

"What we're supposed to lie in this game???" - JoeMcDoug: Post 1694

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Prime Minister Winston Churchill (provided by Vana_ad: Post 1907)