Walter Bagehot
Walter Bagehot
Walter Bagehotwas a British journalist, businessman, and essayist, who wrote extensively about government, economics, and literature...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth3 February 1826
Walter Bagehot quotes about
people political opinion
The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
cheer real hands
The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the most imposing personages of the a splendid procession; it is by them that the mob are influenced; it is they who the inspectors cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second hand carriages; no one cares for them or asks about them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendour of those who eclipsed and preceded them.
kings rights three
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.
women men victim
Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
religious people essentials
The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people.
people cynical stupidity
The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.
mistake trying
The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
political house looks
The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.
civilization firsts culture
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards
english-author few good people written
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.