One must develop a certain obliquity of conscience, an elastic attitude toward the truth, to be effective in diplomacy.
Trevanian, Shibumi: A Novel [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]
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Oh no! I’m all right. One must speak sometimes, one can’t spend one’s life grinning like a Cheshire cat, and pretending one thinks everything perfect.
Florence Farr, The Dancing Faun
