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Walter Bagehot quotes

English Author February 3, 1826 – March 24, 1877

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Walter Bagehot quote: "A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down..."
A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life. Walter Bagehot
Walter Bagehot quote: "The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot..."
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. Walter Bagehot
Walter Bagehot quote: "A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. Walter Bagehot
Walter Bagehot quote: "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you..."
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. Walter Bagehot
Walter Bagehot quote: "Life is a school of probability."
Life is a school of probability. Walter Bagehot
Walter Bagehot quote: "Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what..."
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
The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen. Walter Bagehot
The soldier—that is, the great soldier—of to-day is not a romantic animal, dashing at forlorn hopes, animated by frantic sentiment, full of fancies as to a love-lady or a sovereign; but a quiet, grave man, busied in charts, exact in sums, master of the art of tactics, occupied in trivial detail; thinking, as the Duke of Wellington was said to do, most of the shoes of his soldiers; despising all manner of clat and eloquence; perhaps, like Count Moltke, ‘silent in seven languages’. Walter Bagehot
Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success. Walter Bagehot
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. Walter Bagehot
The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other. Walter Bagehot
Walter Bagehot quote: "No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry..."
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. 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
I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up. Walter Bagehot
Walter Bagehot quote: "One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new..."
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. Walter Bagehot

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