Quotes by Harold Nicolson

“The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.”

“The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.”

“We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.”

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

“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.”

“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”

“The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.”

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

Only one person in 1000 is a bore, and HE is interesting because he is one person in 1000.

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

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.