How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.