I am delighted that India will be my first official visit…

We need to build on our diplomatic networks, and the unrivalled expertise of our Foreign Office, to project a positive image for Britain as…

— Emily Thornberry

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

— Peter Ustinov

I think I can hold every portfolio - defense, finance and Foreign Ministry. I think personally I'd like the foreign office.

— Avigdor Lieberman

“The vulgar might laugh at the Foreign Office, but there was no doubt it taught you how to deal with difficult people.”

— William Somerset Maugham

'Daughters of Britannia' is a fascinating book, not least because it shines a light on a very dark corner of Foreign Office dealings. Diplomatic…

— Amanda Foreman

They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get…

— Anthony Holden

It is vital that people are aware of what the Foreign Office can and can't do.

— David Lidington

“This solid permanence in Foreign Office affairs had always antagonized MacGregor: there was something threatening and deadly and over-sure in it. The building itself…

— James Aldridge

People are mistaken if they think the Foreign Office can get you out of jail. We can't, but we will work hard to try…

— David Lidington

The Foreign Office is a very important arm of the British state and I think Britain has a fantastic diplomatic service. We are the…

— George Osborne

The full history of the interlocking participation of the Imperial German Government and international finance in the destruction of the Russian Empire is not…

— Boris Brasol

The Foreign Office works hard to remind people of local laws and customs as often they can be very different to British law.

— David Lidington

“A Foreign Office diplomat in London wrote in the margins of a Tehran report: “I tend to the view that Musaddiq still enjoys some…

— Ervand Abrahamian

During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding…

— Philip Gibbs

From Lady Carlisle's trip to Moscow in 1663 to Veronica Atkinson's tour of duty during the 1989 Romanian revolution, it is clear that very…

— Amanda Foreman