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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 437
AUTHOR: Ambrose Gwinett Bierce (1842–c. 1914)
QUOTATION: DIPLOMACY, n. The patriotic art of lying for one’s country.
ATTRIBUTION: AMBROSE BIERCE, The Devil’s Dictionary, p. 72 (1948). Originally published in 1906 as The Cynic’s Word Book.
SUBJECTS: Diplomacy
 


Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -KEYWORD INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD