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Walter Bagehot Quotes
A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people. - Walter Bagehot Quotes
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. - Walter Bagehot Quotes
A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life. - Walter Bagehot Quotes
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. - Walter Bagehot Quotes
A mans mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault. - Walter Bagehot Quotes
A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself. - Walter Bagehot Quotes
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. - Walter Bagehot Quotes
A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment. - Walter Bagehot Quotes
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 Quotes
An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle. - Walter Bagehot Quotes
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 Quotes
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. - Walter Bagehot Quotes
An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own. - Walter Bagehot Quotes
Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world. - Walter Bagehot Quotes
Conquest is the missionary of valour, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world. - Walter Bagehot Quotes
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 Quotes
Honor sinks where commerce long prevails. - Walter Bagehot Quotes
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 Quotes
In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best. - Walter Bagehot Quotes
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. - Walter Bagehot Quotes
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. - Walter Bagehot Quotes
Life is a school of probability. - Walter Bagehot Quotes
Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them. - Walter Bagehot Quotes
No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation. - Walter Bagehot Quotes
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. - Walter Bagehot Quotes
Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind. - Walter Bagehot Quotes
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. - Walter Bagehot Quotes
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. - Walter Bagehot Quotes
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison. - Walter Bagehot Quotes
Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other mens thoughts, to speak other mens words, to follow other mens habits. - Walter Bagehot Quotes
Quotes Cloud
Brings Common Down Family General Idea Interesting
Less Level Life Meeting More Nothing Opinions
Parliament People Petty Pride Statesman Than Throne
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