"Only one person in 1000 is a bore,……" — Harold Nicolson
"Only one person in 1000 is a bore, and HE is interesting because he is one person in 1000."
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Harold Nicolson
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13 Quotes by Harold Nicolson
Harold Nicolson has 13 quotes on this site.
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We were preparing not Peace only, but Eternal Peace. There was about us the halo of some divine mission. We…
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Few things are more agreeable than the spectacle of a man who loses his temper; we should be grateful to…
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Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender…
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To be a good diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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Every schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow frequently and to puff
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The worst thing, I fear, about being no longer young is that one is no longer young.
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Coaches should realize that the only way to conquer drudgery is by getting through it as efficiently as they can.…
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The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.
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The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as…
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.
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When I look back upon the more than sixty years that I have spent on this entrancing earth, and when…
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More Bore Quotes
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one of 407 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional…
— Alan Ball
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I actually regard Facebook as a huge bore, but I cannot refrain from participating in it. I guess I crave…
— Roseanne Barr
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
— Josh Billings
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Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But…
— Bjork
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I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.
— Louise Brooks
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What men don't want, in fact what anyone who's any sort of thrill-seeking, intelligent adult doesn't want, is some crushing…
— Julie Burchill
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
— Samuel Butler
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
— Samuel Butler
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Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.
— Winston Churchill
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I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and…
— Harlan Coben
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Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the…
— Marcus Aurelius
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