A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. Walter Bagehot English Author More Walter Bagehot Quotes 8
A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault. Walter Bagehot English Author More Walter Bagehot Quotes 6
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. Walter Bagehot English Author More Walter Bagehot Quotes 6
Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them. Walter Bagehot English Author More Walter Bagehot Quotes 4
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. Walter Bagehot English Author More Walter Bagehot Quotes 3
The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be. Walter Bagehot English Author More Walter Bagehot Quotes 3
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. Walter Bagehot English Author More Walter Bagehot Quotes 3
Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. Walter Bagehot English Author More Walter Bagehot Quotes 0
You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor. Walter Bagehot English Author More Walter Bagehot Quotes 0
History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it. Walter Bagehot British Analyst More Walter Bagehot Quotes 0
War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations. Walter Bagehot British Analyst More Walter Bagehot Quotes 0
The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights -- the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others. Walter Bagehot British Analyst More Walter Bagehot Quotes 0
He believes, with all his heart and soul and strength, that there is such a thing as truth; he has the soul of a martyr with the intellect of an advocate. Walter Bagehot British Analyst More Walter Bagehot Quotes 0
The beginning of civilization is marked by an intense legality; that legality is the very condition of its existence, the bond which ties it together; but that legality - that tendency to impose a settled customary yoke upon all men and all actions -. Walter Bagehot British Analyst More Walter Bagehot Quotes 0
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 British Analyst More Walter Bagehot Quotes 0
Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake. Walter Bagehot British Analyst More Walter Bagehot Quotes 0
The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds. Walter Bagehot English Author More Walter Bagehot Quotes 0
The real essence of work is concentrated energy. Walter Bagehot English Author More Walter Bagehot Quotes 0
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything. Walter Bagehot English Author More Walter Bagehot Quotes 0
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. Walter Bagehot English Author More Walter Bagehot Quotes 0
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. Walter Bagehot English Author More Walter Bagehot Quotes 0
We must not let daylight in upon the magic. Walter Bagehot English Author More Walter Bagehot Quotes 0