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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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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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Venizelos and Lenin are the only two really great men in Europe.
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Rudyard Kipling's eyebrows are very odd indeed! They curl up black and furious like the moustache of a Neapolitan tenor.
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Suez—a smash and grab raid that was all smash and no grab.
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How narrow is the line which separates an adventure from an ordeal.
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Filling in embarkation forms before a Channel crossing:
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What age are you going to put, Osbert?
Osbert Sitwell:
What sex are you going to put, Harold?
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Clemenceau, Lloyd George and President Wilson... It is appalling that these ignorant and irresponsible men should be cutting Asia Minor to bits as if they were dividing a cake...
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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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Attlee is a charming and intelligent man, but as a public speaker he is, compared to Winston [Churchill], like a village fiddler after Paganini.
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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.
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To be a good diarist, one must have a little snouty, sneaky mind.
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Ponderous and uncertain is that relation between pressure and resistance which constitutes the balance of power. The arch of peace is morticed by no iron tendons…One night a handful of dust will patter from the vaulting: the bats will squeak and wheel in sudden panic: nor can the fragile fingers of man then stay the rush and rumble of destruction.
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I am haunted by mental decay such as I saw creeping over Ramsay MacDonald. A gradual dimming of the lights.
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For seventeen years, he did nothing at all but kill animals and stick in stamps.
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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.
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Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
Wyndham Lewis
Harold Nicolson
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Born:
November 21, 1886
Died:
May 1, 1968
(aged 81)
Bio:
Sir Harold George Nicolson was an English diplomat, author, diarist and politician.
Known for:
Why Britain is at War (1939)
Diplomacy (1939)
Peacemaking 1919 (1933)
The Evolution of Diplomatic Method (1954)
The Age of Reason (1700-1789) (1960)
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