Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality.
Harold NicolsonThese, 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.
Harold NicolsonEvery schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow frequently and to puff
Harold Nicolson