Harold Nicolson Quotes

#1. Few things are more agreeable than the spectacle of a man who loses his temper; we should be grateful to such people for providing us with moments of often unsullied delight.

Harold Nicolson

#2. To be a good diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind.

Harold Nicolson

#3. Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality.

Harold Nicolson

#4. We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.

Harold Nicolson

#5. The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.

Harold Nicolson

#6. The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.

Harold Nicolson

#7. Coaches should realize that the only way to conquer drudgery is by getting through it as efficiently as they can. A dull job slackly done becomes twice as dull, whereas a dull job performed as efficiently as possible becomes half as dull. Effort appears to be the main art of living.

Harold Nicolson

#8. The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.

Harold Nicolson

#9. Berlin stimulates like arsenic.

Harold Nicolson

#10. The worst thing, I fear, about being no longer young is that one is no longer young.

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#11. Every schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow frequently and to puff

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#12. We were preparing not Peace only, but Eternal Peace. There was about us the halo of some divine mission. We were bent on doing great, permanent noble things.

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#13. Only one person in 1000 is a bore, and HE is interesting because he is one person in 1000.

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#14. His muse walked the streets with the others but she wore galoshes and was terribly afraid of being recognized.

Harold Nicolson