Harold Nicolson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
-- Harold Nicolson

#Relationship #Marriage #Successful
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.
-- Harold Nicolson

#Humility #Judging
The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
-- Harold Nicolson

#Enemy #Wish #Want
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

#Grateful #Men #People
Berlin stimulates like arsenic.
-- Harold Nicolson

#Arsenic #Berlin
The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.
-- Harold Nicolson

#Men #Broadcasting #Capacity
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

#Sports #Art #Jobs
The worst thing, I fear, about being no longer young is that one is no longer young.
-- Harold Nicolson

#Inspirational #Young #Worst
Every schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow frequently and to puff
-- Harold Nicolson

#School #Age #Puff
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

#War #Halos #Noble
To be a good diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind.
-- Harold Nicolson

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

#Team #Personality #Surrender
Only one person in 1000 is a bore, and HE is interesting because he is one person in 1000.
-- Harold Nicolson

#Interesting #Bores #Persons
These, then, are the qualities of my ideal diplomatist. Truth, accuracy, calm, patience, good temper, modesty and loyalty. They are also the qualities of an ideal diplomacy. But, the reader may object, you have forgotten intelligence, knowledge, discernment, prudence, hospitality, charm, industry, courage and even tact. I have not forgotten them. I have taken them for granted.
-- Harold Nicolson

#Loyalty #Taken #Quality

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