Harold Nicolson
Harold Nicolson
Sir Harold George Nicolson KCVO CMGwas an English diplomat, author, diarist and politician...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDiplomat
Date of Birth21 November 1886
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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 all the changes that I have witnessed appears to me to be the most significant, I am inclined to answer that it is the loss of a
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She proceeds to dip here little fountain-pen filler into pots of oily venom and to squirt this mixture at all her friends.
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Considering that his hair is like that of a gollywog and his clothes noticeable the other end of Trafalgar Square, this is an odd assertion.
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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.
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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 of personality.
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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, permanent noble things.
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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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The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.
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Berlin stimulates like arsenic.
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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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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.
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To be a good diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind.