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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.
— Harold Nicolson
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Harold Nicolson
horticulturist, politician, diplomat, diarist, writer, journalist, biographer, author
1886 – 1968
Sir Harold George Nicolson was a British politician, writer, broadcaster and gardener. His wife was Vita Sackville-West.
All Quotes by Harold Nicolson
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To be a good diarist, one must have a little snouty, sneaky mind.
— Harold Nicolson
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For seventeen years, he did nothing at all but kill animals and stick in stamps.
— Harold Nicolson
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Kennedy reminds me of Lindbergh and I suspect him of wishing to have a tough foreign policy and to worry about prestige. On the other hand, he is on the left, will be nicer to Negroes than to Big Business and has promised to appoint Adlai Stevenson as secretary of state. So it works out 50/50 by me.
— Harold Nicolson
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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...
— Harold Nicolson