Famous Quotes / Walter Bagehot
50 Quotations by Walter Bagehot
- 41. The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
- 42. The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights -- the right to be con ...
- 43. The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at fi ...
- 44. To a great experience one thing is essential, an experiencing nature. It is not enough to have oppor ...
- 45. Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has n ...
- 46. War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminar ...
- 47. We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
- 48. What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
- 49. When great questions end, little parties begin.
- 50. Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.