Harold Nicolson
Harold Nicolson
Sir Harold George Nicolson KCVO CMGwas an English diplomat, author, diarist and politician...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDiplomat
Date of Birth21 November 1886
dip mixture pots proceeds venom
She proceeds to dip here little fountain-pen filler into pots of oily venom and to squirt this mixture at all her friends.
relationship marriage successful
The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
humility judging judgment-of-others
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.
sports art jobs
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.
enemy wish want
The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
arsenic berlin
Berlin stimulates like arsenic.
inspirational young worst
The worst thing, I fear, about being no longer young is that one is no longer young.
school age puff
Every schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow frequently and to puff
war noble halos
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.
mind sneaky
To be a good diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind.
team personality surrender
Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality.
answer appears asked changes earth inclined loss sixty spent witnessed
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