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A poet who knew that a war leader in his speech on the eve of battle will be both a man of civilization and its raging opposite.
— Adam Nicolson
Jas, whatever Tom has under his trousers is between you and him.
— Louise Rennison
You've said before, Ms. Nicolson, that your mother was a strong woman. She lived through the war,
— Kate Morton
These are the two possibilities for human life.
— Adam Nicolson
The earliest complete Odyssey to have survived is from the late tenth century, now in Michelangelo's Laurentian Library in Florence,
— Adam Nicolson
Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar, where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell?
— Adela Florence Nicolson
Every schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow frequently and to puff
— Harold Nicolson
The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.
— Harold Nicolson
To be a good diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind.
— Harold Nicolson
The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
— Harold Nicolson
A puritan is such a one as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart.
— Adam Nicolson
For them, and for Homer, impermanence is life's central sorrow and the source of its most lasting pain.
— Adam Nicolson
Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.
— Adela Florence Nicolson
Red lips like a living, laughing rose.
— Adela Florence Nicolson
I can already feel myself getting fed up with boys and I haven't had anything to do with them yet - Georgia Nicolson
— Louise Rennison
I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.
— Adela Florence Nicolson
The worst thing, I fear, about being no longer young is that one is no longer young.
— Harold Nicolson
For this is wisdom: to live, to take what fate, or the Gods, may give.
— Adela Florence Nicolson
How many times do we all have to do this? Get up, go to school, again? Before everyone admits it's a crap idea?
— Louise Rennison
Your soul shines through even if you haven't got mascara on
— Louise Rennison
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
— Adela Florence Nicolson
Only one person in 1000 is a bore, and HE is interesting because he is one person in 1000.
— Harold Nicolson
There are 201 words in the Iliad and the Odyssey that occur only once in Homer and never again in the whole of Greek literature.
— Adam Nicolson
How can you think you won't hold my attention? I'm intrigued by everything about you.
— Kelly Nicolson
His muse walked the streets with the others but she wore galoshes and was terribly afraid of being recognized.
— Harold Nicolson
Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality.
— Harold Nicolson
Rosie laughed in a not too reassuring way if you like sane laughter.
— Louise Rennison
This was all evidence of the tradition at work, of Homer being more interested in epic music than its meaning.
— Adam Nicolson
The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
— Harold Nicolson
Angus is amusing himself by ambushing the postman. Och aye, they may have taken his trouser snake addendums, but they cannae tak his freedom!!
— Louise Rennison
Odysseus is always slipping out, the man who has been everywhere, seen everything, done everything,
— Adam Nicolson
There will be no peace until the violence is done. Peace is inaccessible without the violence, because violence is righteousness in action.
— Adam Nicolson
The place has entered me...it has coloured my life like a stain.
— Adam Nicolson
One eighteenth-century bard was given a lovely estate in Harris by his MacLeod chief,
— Adam Nicolson
In those days, now it was in those days, In those nights, now it was in those nights, In those years, now it was in those years
— Adam Nicolson
The first printed Greek Homer had appeared in 1488, in Florence, published by an Athenian, Demetrius Chalcondyles,
— Adam Nicolson
in 1944 the Germans executed brutal, slaughtering attacks on the people of mountain Crete.
— Adam Nicolson
Berlin stimulates like arsenic.
— Harold Nicolson
