"We were preparing not Peace only, but Eternal……" — Harold Nicolson
"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 Quotes by Harold Nicolson
Harold Nicolson has 13 quotes on this site.
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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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Only one person in 1000 is a bore, and HE is interesting because he is one person in 1000.
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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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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires,…
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Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your…
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The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and…
— Annie Besant
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Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I…
— Jeff Bridges
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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or…
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Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing…
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But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?
— Robert Browning
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The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused…
— Kurt Cobain
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As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.
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