Harold Nicolson

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

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

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

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

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

Berlin stimulates like arsenic.