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Walter Bagehot quotes about greatness

English Author February 3, 1826 – March 24, 1877

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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
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
Walter Bagehot quote: "No great work has ever been produced except after a long..."
No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation. Walter Bagehot
An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft. Walter Bagehot

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