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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
— Walter Bagehot
In my youth I hoped to do great things; now I shall be satisfied to get through without scandal.
— Walter Bagehot
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
— Walter Bagehot
An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
— Walter Bagehot
One cannot make men good by Act of Parliament.
— Walter Bagehot
The abstract thinking of the world is never to be expected of persons in high places ...
— Walter Bagehot
Throughout the greater part of his life George III was a kind of 'consecrated obstruction'.
— Walter Bagehot
The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.
— Walter Bagehot
Every banker knows that if he has to prove he is worthy of credit, in fact his credit is gone.
— Walter Bagehot
The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
— Walter Bagehot
You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
— Walter Bagehot
It is the continual effort of the beginning that creates the hoarded energy of the end;
— Walter Bagehot
No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
— Walter Bagehot
The real essence of work is concentrated energy.
— Walter Bagehot
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
— Walter Bagehot
The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.
— Walter Bagehot
A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
— Walter Bagehot
Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt.
— Walter Bagehot
Money is economic power.
— Walter Bagehot
Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.
— Walter Bagehot
Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.
— Walter Bagehot
The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair; The Grecian gods are like the Greeks, As keen-eyed, cold and fair.
— Walter Bagehot
The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
— Walter Bagehot
The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.
— Walter Bagehot
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
— Walter Bagehot
But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers.
— Walter Bagehot
We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
— Walter Bagehot
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
— Walter Bagehot
Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.
— Walter Bagehot
So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
— Walter Bagehot
Nations touch at their summits.
— Walter Bagehot
The purse strings tie us to our kind.
— Walter Bagehot
A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.
— Walter Bagehot
A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
— Walter Bagehot
A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
— Walter Bagehot
The best security for people's doing their duty is that they should not know anything else to do.
— Walter Bagehot
Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings.
— Walter Bagehot
The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend.
— Walter Bagehot
Go ahead and do the impossible. It's worth the look on the faces of those who said you couldn't.
— Walter Bagehot
Most men of business think Anyhow this system will probably last my time. It has gone on a long time, and is likely to go on still.
— Walter Bagehot
Womenone half the human race at least
care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry. — Walter Bagehot
Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity.
— Walter Bagehot
It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
— Walter Bagehot
All people are most credulous when they are most happy.
— Walter Bagehot
Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
— Walter Bagehot
Life is a school of probability.
— Walter Bagehot
Great and terrible systems of divinity and philosophy lie round about us, which, if true, might drive a wise man mad.
— Walter Bagehot
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
— Walter Bagehot
No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of a second-rate man.
— Walter Bagehot
Woman absent is woman dead.
— Walter Bagehot
A political country is like an American forest; you have only to cut down the old trees, and immediately new trees come up to replace them.
— Walter Bagehot
Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
— Walter Bagehot
A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.
— Walter Bagehot
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
— Walter Bagehot
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
— Walter Bagehot
When great questions end, little parties begin.
— Walter Bagehot
What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
— Walter Bagehot