Harold Nicolson Quotes

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• 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,…
• 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…
• Only one person in 1000 is a bore, and HE is interesting because he is one person in 1000.
• Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality.
• To be a good diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind.
• The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
• Every schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow frequently and to puff
• The worst thing, I fear, about being no longer young is that one is no longer young.
• 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…
• The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.
• The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
• We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.
• When I look back upon the more than sixty years that I have spent on this entrancing earth, and when I am asked which of…

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