An Apology is never sufficient — A wound is not cured by the unbending of the bow.

Apology is, on some occasions, nothing but rudeness.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

An Apology only accounts for that which it does not alter.

Compromise is unwise — The collapse of character often begins on compromise corner.

A Compromise is an arrangement whereby people who can't get what they want make sure nobody else does either.

Compromise is not the spice of life, but its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.

Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward.

Diplomacy is lying in state.

Diplomacy is doing just what you said you wouldn't.

Diplomacy is the art of winning without having the other guy lose.

Diplomacy is to do and say The nastiest things in the nicest way.

Grace is like a mathematical law.

Grace is more beautiful than beauty.

Grace is the outcome of inward harmony.

Grace is efficacy — A good acrobat is always graceful, though grace is never his object; he is graceful because he does what he has to do in the best way in which it can be done - graceful because he is natural.