20 Quotes by Harold Nicolson

She proceeds to dip here little fountain-pen filler into pots of oily venom and to squirt this mixture at all her friends.

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.

Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality.

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.

Every schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow frequently and to puff

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

Berlin stimulates like arsenic.

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.

To be a good diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind.