I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
I like ducks." Jem observed diplomatically. "Esspecially the ones in Hyde Park." He glanced side ways at Will; both boys were sitting at the edge of a high table, thier legs dangling over the side. "Remember when you tried to convince me to feed pultry pie the the mallards in the park to see if you couls breed a race of cannibal ducks?" "They ate it too," Will reminisced. "Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.
You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more than public or partisan opinion, when the mood of Beethoven's or Bach's music becomes the mood of your whole life … when your thinking is in harmony, and no longer in conflict, with your feelings … when you let yourself be guided by the thoughts of great sages and no longer by the crimes of great warriors … when you pay the men and women who teach your children better than the politicians; when truths inspire you and empty formulas repel you; when you communicate with your fellow workers in foreign countries directly, and no longer through diplomats...
How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.