Harold Nicolson Quotes

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  • The worst thing, I fear, about being no longer young is that one is no longer young.

  • 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.

    Grateful   Men   People  
    Harold Nicolson (1960). “Good Behaviour”
  • Every schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow frequently and to puff

    School   Age   Puff  
  • 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.

    Loyalty   Taken   Quality  
    "Diplomacy". Book by Harold George Nicolson, chapter 3, p. 126, 1939.
  • Only one person in 1000 is a bore, and HE is interesting because he is one person in 1000.

  • We were preparing not Peace only, but Eternal Peace. There was about us the halo of some divine mission. We must be alert, stern, righteous and ascetic. For we were bent on doing great, permanent and noble things.

    War   Remembrance   Noble  
    "Peacemaking, 1919".
  • To be a good diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind.

    Writing   Mind   Sneaky  
  • The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.

    Enemy   Wish   Want  
    Harold Nicolson (1943). “The Desire to Please: A Story of Hamilton Rowan and the United Irishmen”
  • Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality.

  • 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.

    Sports   Art   Jobs  
  • Berlin stimulates like arsenic.

    Arsenic   Berlin  
    Der Querschnitt. Quoted in Gordon, Mel (2000). "Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin", front fold, 1929.
  • 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.

    Quoted in Reader's Digest, May 1936
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