They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they`re riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.
- Anthony HoldenI`m convinced there`s a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
- Peter UstinovPeople also don`t care about the daily comings and goings of diplomats and yet we must report it.
- Roone ArledgeIt`s a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.
- John KeeganWe are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.
- Ahmed M. Al AshkerArmy: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.
- Allan WrightDiplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.
- Alymer Letterman