Top 25 Adam Nicolson Quotes (2024 Update)

Adam Nicolson Quote: “A puritan is such a one as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart.”

1. “A puritan is such a one as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart.”

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Adam Nicolson Quote: “Cattle and fat sheep are things to be had for the lifting, and tripods can be won, and the tawny high heads of horses, but a man’s life cannot come back again, it cannot be lifted Nor captured again by force, once it has crossed the teeth’s barrier.”

2. “Cattle and fat sheep are things to be had for the lifting, and tripods can be won, and the tawny high heads of horses, but a man’s life cannot come back again, it cannot be lifted Nor captured again by force, once it has crossed the teeth’s barrier.”

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Adam Nicolson Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

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Adam Nicolson Quote: “Or do you, like Achilles, believe in the dignity of love and the purity of honor as the only things that matter in the face of death?”

4. “Or do you, like Achilles, believe in the dignity of love and the purity of honor as the only things that matter in the face of death?”

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Adam Nicolson Quote: “The Enquiry in England,’ Blake said, ’is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen’s opinions in arts and science.”

5. “The Enquiry in England,’ Blake said, ’is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen’s opinions in arts and science.”

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Adam Nicolson Quote: “The place has entered me... it has coloured my life like a stain.”

6. “The place has entered me... it has coloured my life like a stain.”

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Adam Nicolson Quote: “As the generation of leaves, so too is the generation of men. And as for leaves, the winds scatter some on the earth, But the new wood puts forth others, and spring comes again. So it is with men: as one generation is born, another dies.”

7. “As the generation of leaves, so too is the generation of men. And as for leaves, the winds scatter some on the earth, But the new wood puts forth others, and spring comes again. So it is with men: as one generation is born, another dies.”

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Adam Nicolson Quote: “Do you, like Agamemnon, attempt to dominate your world?”

8. “Do you, like Agamemnon, attempt to dominate your world?”

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Adam Nicolson Quote: “There will be no peace until the violence is done. Peace is inaccessible without the violence, because violence is righteousness in action.”

9. “There will be no peace until the violence is done. Peace is inaccessible without the violence, because violence is righteousness in action.”

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Adam Nicolson Quote: “You can either do what your integrity tells you to do, or niftily find your way around the obstacles life throws in your path.”

10. “You can either do what your integrity tells you to do, or niftily find your way around the obstacles life throws in your path.”

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Adam Nicolson Quote: “Most people read Homer in those stupid eighteenth-century translations,” Gautier said calmly. “They make him sound like Marie-Antoinette nibbling biscuits in the Tuileries. But if you read him in Greek you can see he’s a monster, his people are monsters. The whole thing is like a dinner party for barbarians. They eat with their fingers. They put mud in their hair when they are upset. They spend half the time painting themselves.”

11. “Most people read Homer in those stupid eighteenth-century translations,” Gautier said calmly. “They make him sound like Marie-Antoinette nibbling biscuits in the Tuileries. But if you read him in Greek you can see he’s a monster, his people are monsters. The whole thing is like a dinner party for barbarians. They eat with their fingers. They put mud in their hair when they are upset. They spend half the time painting themselves.”

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Adam Nicolson Quote: “Do you, like Hector, think of your family above all and weaken your resolve by doing that?”

12. “Do you, like Hector, think of your family above all and weaken your resolve by doing that?”

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Adam Nicolson Quote: “Until the twentieth century, no one had any idea that Homer might have existed in this strange and immaterial form. It was the assumption that Homer, like other poets, wrote his poetry. Virgil, Dante and Milton were merely following in his footsteps. The only debate was over why these written poems were in places written so badly. Why had he not written them better?”

13. “Until the twentieth century, no one had any idea that Homer might have existed in this strange and immaterial form. It was the assumption that Homer, like other poets, wrote his poetry. Virgil, Dante and Milton were merely following in his footsteps. The only debate was over why these written poems were in places written so badly. Why had he not written them better?”

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Adam Nicolson Quote: “The most intriguing aspect of the Hawara Homer, and other papyri of the same era, is how close they are to the text of Homer as it was transmitted to the Byzantine scholars who were assembling the Venetus A manuscript eight hundred years later.”

14. “The most intriguing aspect of the Hawara Homer, and other papyri of the same era, is how close they are to the text of Homer as it was transmitted to the Byzantine scholars who were assembling the Venetus A manuscript eight hundred years later.”

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Adam Nicolson Quote: “Look at them on days like that, when the wind is blowing through the boundaries of fresh and stiff, and you will see them for what they are: wind-runners, wind-dancers, the wind-spirits, alive with an evolved ability to live with the wind, in it and on it, drawing out its energy to make their own feathered, mobile, ocean-ranging magnificence.”

15. “Look at them on days like that, when the wind is blowing through the boundaries of fresh and stiff, and you will see them for what they are: wind-runners, wind-dancers, the wind-spirits, alive with an evolved ability to live with the wind, in it and on it, drawing out its energy to make their own feathered, mobile, ocean-ranging magnificence.”

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Adam Nicolson Quote: “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.”

16. “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.”

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Adam Nicolson Quote: “It is one of the strangest of historical paradoxes that the King James Bible, whose whole purpose had been nation-building in the service of a ceremonial and episcopal state church, should become the guiding text of Puritan America. But the translation’s lifeblood had been inclusiveness, it was drenched with the splendour of a divinely sanctioned authority, and by the end of the seventeenth century it had come to be treasured by Americans as much as by the British as one of their national texts.”

17. “It is one of the strangest of historical paradoxes that the King James Bible, whose whole purpose had been nation-building in the service of a ceremonial and episcopal state church, should become the guiding text of Puritan America. But the translation’s lifeblood had been inclusiveness, it was drenched with the splendour of a divinely sanctioned authority, and by the end of the seventeenth century it had come to be treasured by Americans as much as by the British as one of their national texts.”

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Adam Nicolson Quote: “It is, in other words, the King James Bible’s exact contemporary, the product of precisely the same cultural moment, produced from precisely the same court culture, with precisely the same intention of celebrating and in a certain sense ‘housing’ James I and his dream of majesty. Can Hatfield House, then, be read as a companion to the Bible whose genesis is so close to its own?”

18. “It is, in other words, the King James Bible’s exact contemporary, the product of precisely the same cultural moment, produced from precisely the same court culture, with precisely the same intention of celebrating and in a certain sense ‘housing’ James I and his dream of majesty. Can Hatfield House, then, be read as a companion to the Bible whose genesis is so close to its own?”

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Adam Nicolson Quote: “American gang members talk about themselves, their lives, their ambitions, their idea of fate, the role of violence and revenge, in ways that are strangely like the Greeks in the Iliad.”

19. “American gang members talk about themselves, their lives, their ambitions, their idea of fate, the role of violence and revenge, in ways that are strangely like the Greeks in the Iliad.”

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Adam Nicolson Quote: “At that level through out the 18th century, another vision of admirable behavior persisted. The mob did not want the smooth conformable man, the slick hypocrite who could so politely maneuver his way into the rewards of high politics and high society. They wanted his very opposite, the clever thief. The man who thrived not by using the well oiled wheels of society but by opposing them and cheating them; by attending to the well-being of his own heroic self.”

20. “At that level through out the 18th century, another vision of admirable behavior persisted. The mob did not want the smooth conformable man, the slick hypocrite who could so politely maneuver his way into the rewards of high politics and high society. They wanted his very opposite, the clever thief. The man who thrived not by using the well oiled wheels of society but by opposing them and cheating them; by attending to the well-being of his own heroic self.”

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Adam Nicolson Quote: “Iliad’s subject is not war or its wickedness but a crisis in how to be.”

21. “Iliad’s subject is not war or its wickedness but a crisis in how to be.”

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Adam Nicolson Quote: “The 19th century had chosen only to remember the happy warrior. The 20th century only the blood come gargling. Both are essential to any understanding of Trafalgar.”

22. “The 19th century had chosen only to remember the happy warrior. The 20th century only the blood come gargling. Both are essential to any understanding of Trafalgar.”

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Adam Nicolson Quote: “The purity of death holds no attraction for the Homeric Greeks. Their world is one in which the felt, sensed and shared reality, the reality of the human heart, is the only one worth having.”

23. “The purity of death holds no attraction for the Homeric Greeks. Their world is one in which the felt, sensed and shared reality, the reality of the human heart, is the only one worth having.”

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Adam Nicolson Quote: “Very occasionally, a simplified form of communion and of adult baptism for new members of the church would be enacted but no Separatist was ever married in church, because there is no hint of a marriage ceremony in scripture and the primitive church had not considered marriage a sacrament before AD 537.”

24. “Very occasionally, a simplified form of communion and of adult baptism for new members of the church would be enacted but no Separatist was ever married in church, because there is no hint of a marriage ceremony in scripture and the primitive church had not considered marriage a sacrament before AD 537.”

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Adam Nicolson Quote: “Look at a wild creature- even hold it in your hand- and it is obvious that you don’t ‘have’ it. You hold it but everything it is stretches far beyond your enclosing fingers, in time and space and through its own interior existence. You may posess it, even for a moment, but it is not yours... Whatever it is to be known remains outside the grip of our knowing it.”

25. “Look at a wild creature- even hold it in your hand- and it is obvious that you don’t ‘have’ it. You hold it but everything it is stretches far beyond your enclosing fingers, in time and space and through its own interior existence. You may posess it, even for a moment, but it is not yours... Whatever it is to be known remains outside the grip of our knowing it.”

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