Harold Nicolson Quotes

#1. In 1925 Woolf began an affair with Sackville-West, who was married to Harold Nicolson, the diplomat and writer, and the development of their close relationship, which does not seem to have undermined either woman's marriage, coincided with Woolf 's most productive years as a writer.

Jane Goldman

#2. Vita Sackville-West is one of my favorite female icons. She was a writer and a prolific gardener, but she also had a relationship with Virginia Woolf, and she was married to Sir Harold Nicolson. She was a woman who lived outside of norms.

Gwendoline Christie

#3. Any path you take, if you commit with passion, you can be successful. By going to business school, certain opportunities may open up to you sooner. But it's who you are and how you take advantage of your opportunities that matter.

Dan Rosensweig

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

Harold Nicolson

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

Harold Nicolson

#6. 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.

Harold Nicolson

#7. Each day we take another step to hell,
Descending through the stench, unhorrified

Charles Baudelaire

#8. Absolute statements of our unbelief that we make in the darkness are notoriously unreliable.

John Piper

#9. I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination.

Billy Sherwood

#10. In league with the fantastic. That's a thought to keep hold of.

Warren Ellis

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

Harold Nicolson

#12. Ask yourself this: Who is more amateurish, more vulnerable - those who rely on machines that need to be plugged in, or logged on, or in some other way connected in order to be more than a useless slab of plastic ... or those who have learned to master life without?

Anne Fortier

#13. If we don't do what we are passionate about, work would be more like a mere wait for the subsequent month's salary.

Abhishek Krishnan

#14. What is planted in each person's soul will sprout.

Rumi

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

Harold Nicolson

#16. Berlin stimulates like arsenic.

Harold Nicolson

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

Harold Nicolson

#18. Bloody hell, were you this annoying with my father?" "I fear I was more so, my lord. I was younger then and could go on and on and on - " "Good. The old bastard deserved a difficult time." "So many people believe.

Karen Hawkins

#19. I wouldn't hit a girl, but i'd beat a bitches ass!

BLUE

#20. 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

#21. Conservatives were griping for decades about liberal media and nobody paid attention. Now, all of a sudden, one news channel has gotten a whole new community of people freaked out.

Michael K. Powell

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

Harold Nicolson

#23. Our service programming teams view themselves as partners in evangelism with our members and regular attendees. Does that mean we tailor the content to non-Christians? Nope. We tailor the experience to non-Christians. There's a big difference.

Andy Stanley

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

Harold Nicolson

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

Harold Nicolson

#26. The only way I can lose my mind in bed is to destroy myself in a fantasy.

Patti Smith

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

Harold Nicolson

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

Harold Nicolson

#29. 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

#30. I looked down and thought about how I was made of paper. I was the flimsy-foldable person, not everyone else.

John Green