Walter Bagehot Quotes


54 quotes:

"A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind."
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"Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and serpent-like a manner. At last it strikes you that they grew up, house by house, on the devious tracks of the old green lanes; and if you follow on to the existing fields, you may often find the change half complete."
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"Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns."
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"In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius."
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"The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards."
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"The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything."
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"Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind."
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"A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities."
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"A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault."
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"You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor."
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"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."
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"The real essence of work is concentrated energy."
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"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
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"So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong."
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"The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be."
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"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."
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"It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations."
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"Woman absent is woman dead."
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"No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation."
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"All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape."
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