Famous Quotes / Walter Bagehot
50 Quotations by Walter Bagehot
- 21. No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist ...
- 22. One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
- 23. Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevai ...
- 24. Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell ho ...
- 25. Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do ...
- 26. Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
- 27. Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink ...
- 28. Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing int ...
- 29. So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism -- despotism during the campaign ...
- 30. Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
- 31. The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: ...
- 32. The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opi ...
- 33. The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The m ...
- 34. The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it.
- 35. The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
- 36. The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
- 37. The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
- 38. The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not kn ...
- 39. The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not kn ...
- 40. The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as ...