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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

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. — Walter Bagehot

Stupidity is nature's favorite resource for preserving consistency of opinion. — 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

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people. — 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

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness. — 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

If you have to prove you are worthy of credit, your credit is already gone. — 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

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — 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

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. — Walter Bagehot

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. — Walter Bagehot

Capital must be propelled by self-interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolence. — 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

Women
one 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

In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius. — 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

Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking. — Walter Bagehot

To a great experience one thing is essential, an experiencing nature. — 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