Quotes by Harold Nicolson - Page 1

Berlin stimulates like arsenic.
Harold Nicolson / Diplomat
Arsenic
Berlin
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To be a good diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind.
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Mind
Sneaky
Writing
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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Ideals
Acts
Judge
Inclined
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.
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Humility
Judgement
Judging
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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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Inspirational
Worst
Young
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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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Bores
Interesting
Persons
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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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Enemy
Ill
Want
Wish
Enemies
Irish
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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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Men
Broadcasting
Capacity
Human Capacity
Lowest
Attain
Gift
Question
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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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Age
Puff
School
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The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
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Marriage
Relationship
Incidents
Secret
Successful
Disasters
Great Secret
None
Treat
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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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Personality
Surrender
Team
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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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Men
Grateful
People
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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.
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War
Noble
Remembrance
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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.
Harold Nicolson / Diplomat
Art
Jobs
Sports
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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 / Diplomat
Loyalty
Quality
May
Taken
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