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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
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
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
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
Life is a school of probability.
— Walter Bagehot
The best security for people's doing their duty is that they should not know anything else to do.
— 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
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
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
Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
— Walter Bagehot
All people are most credulous when they are most happy.
— 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
Women
one half the human race at least
care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry. — Walter Bagehot
one half the human race at least
care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry. — 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
Go ahead and do the impossible. It's worth the look on the faces of those who said you couldn't.
— Walter Bagehot
The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend.
— Walter Bagehot