Top 60 Quotes About Nicolson
#1. 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
#2. I can already feel myself getting fed up with boys and I haven't had anything to do with them yet - Georgia Nicolson
Louise Rennison
#3. The thing she valued high above the rest, was his strength of character. Stephen Nicolson had the courage of his convictions: he would never let his lover bend his will, and Dorothy liked that; there was a danger, she thought, in the sort of loving that made people act against type.
Kate Morton
#4. 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
#5. You've said before, Ms. Nicolson, that your mother was a strong woman. She lived through the war,
Kate Morton
#6. One eighteenth-century bard was given a lovely estate in Harris by his MacLeod chief,
Adam Nicolson
#7. Unlike Virgil, Homer is no part of the classical age, has no truck with judicious distinction or the calm management of life and society. He precedes that order, is a preclassic, immoderate, uncompromising, never sacrificing truth for grace.
Adam Nicolson
#8. Biology
The film turns out to be about bees. It is a film about a bee center. How crap is this going to be?
An hour later
That was the best thing I have seen for ages. We made Miss Wilson rewind the bit where the two queens were having a bitch fight.
Louise Rennison
#9. Dad leapt over the garden wall instead of going through the gate. Sadly he didn't do himself a severe injury, and so he lives to embarrass me to death another day.
Louise Rennison
#10. Angus is amusing himself by ambushing the postman. Och aye, they may have taken his trouser snake addendums, but they cannae tak his freedom!!
Louise Rennison
#11. The worst thing, I fear, about being no longer young is that one is no longer young.
Harold Nicolson
#12. The first objects to be designed with the sole purpose of killing another person.
Adam Nicolson
#14. For them, and for Homer, impermanence is life's central sorrow and the source of its most lasting pain.
Adam Nicolson
#16. Rosie laughed in a not too reassuring way if you like sane laughter.
Louise Rennison
#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. Recognizing that I had understood something that evening: the banality of one's own death, so much less terrible than the death of someone you love;
Adam Nicolson
#19. His muse walked the streets with the others but she wore galoshes and was terribly afraid of being recognized.
Harold Nicolson
#20. Jas, whatever Tom has under his trousers is between you and him.
Louise Rennison
#21. I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.
Adela Florence Nicolson
#22. He says we should take it easy and that maybe he overreacted a bit."
Dave said, "A bit? That's like Hitler saying, 'Oooh, I just meant to go for a little walk, but then I accidentally invaded Poland.
Louise Rennison
#23. Every schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow frequently and to puff
Harold Nicolson
#24. Odysseus is always slipping out, the man who has been everywhere, seen everything, done everything,
Adam Nicolson
#25. This was all evidence of the tradition at work, of Homer being more interested in epic music than its meaning.
Adam Nicolson
#26. in 1944 the Germans executed brutal, slaughtering attacks on the people of mountain Crete.
Adam Nicolson
#27. As the generation of leaves, so too is the generation of men. And as for leaves, the winds scatter some on the earth, But the new wood puts forth others, and spring comes again. So it is with men: as one generation is born, another dies.
Adam Nicolson
#28. 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
#30. Only one person in 1000 is a bore, and HE is interesting because he is one person in 1000.
Harold Nicolson
#31. Iliad's subject is not war or its wickedness but a crisis in how to be.
Adam Nicolson
#32. Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar, where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell?
Adela Florence Nicolson
#33. The first printed Greek Homer had appeared in 1488, in Florence, published by an Athenian, Demetrius Chalcondyles,
Adam Nicolson
#34. T's [King James Bible] subject is majesty, not tyranny, and it's political purpose was unifying and enfolding, to elide the kingliness of God with the godliness of kings, to make royal power and divine glory into one invisible garment which could be wrapped around the nation as a whole.
Adam Nicolson
#35. When uncle Eddie does his impression of 'Like a Virgin' it's like Madonna is coming out of his body!'
Christ what an image.
Louise Rennison
#36. There are 201 words in the Iliad and the Odyssey that occur only once in Homer and never again in the whole of Greek literature.
Adam Nicolson
#37. The place has entered me...it has coloured my life like a stain.
Adam Nicolson
#38. A puritan is such a one as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart.
Adam Nicolson
#39. 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
#41. To be a good diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind.
Harold Nicolson
#42. Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality.
Harold Nicolson
#43. How many times do we all have to do this? Get up, go to school, again? Before everyone admits it's a crap idea?
Louise Rennison
#44. We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Harold Nicolson
#45. The earliest complete Odyssey to have survived is from the late tenth century, now in Michelangelo's Laurentian Library in Florence,
Adam Nicolson
#46. The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
Harold Nicolson
#47. 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
#48. There will be no peace until the violence is done. Peace is inaccessible without the violence, because violence is righteousness in action.
Adam Nicolson
#49. For which he had to pay "1 panegyrick poem every year." That is Homeric rent.
Adam Nicolson
#50. What in the name of Hitler's panties and matching bra set was she talking about?
Louise Rennison
#51. Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.
Adela Florence Nicolson
#52. In those days, now it was in those days, In those nights, now it was in those nights, In those years, now it was in those years
Adam Nicolson
#53. Your soul shines through even if you haven't got mascara on
Louise Rennison
#54. The 19th century had chosen only to remember the happy warrior. The 20th century only the blood come gargling. Both are essential to any understanding of Trafalgar.
Adam Nicolson
#55. How can you think you won't hold my attention? I'm intrigued by everything about you.
Kelly Nicolson
#56. A poet who knew that a war leader in his speech on the eve of battle will be both a man of civilization and its raging opposite.
Adam Nicolson
#57. These are the two possibilities for human life.
Adam Nicolson
#58. The Enquiry in England,' Blake said, 'is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in arts and science.
Adam Nicolson
#59. The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.
Harold Nicolson
#60. I don't know what's going on with Mum and Dad, but it's weird. Mum keeps asking Dad to do things and he keeps doing them Unfotunately, she hasn't said 'Hand over your money and make your way to Europe!
Louise Rennison
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