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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 56712 |
| QUOTATION: | When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Sun Tzu (6–5th century B.C.), Chinese general. repr., Ed. James Clavell (1981). The Art of War, ch. 9, axiom 38 (c. 490 B.C.). |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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