Walter Bagehot Quotes
Top 69 wise famous quotes and sayings by Walter Bagehot
Walter Bagehot Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
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.
You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.
A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt.
The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair; The Grecian gods are like the Greeks, As keen-eyed, cold and fair.
The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.
So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
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.
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.
Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity.
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.
Great and terrible systems of divinity and philosophy lie round about us, which, if true, might drive a wise man mad.
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
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.
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.
Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.