Walter Bagehot
Walter Bagehot
Walter Bagehotwas a British journalist, businessman, and essayist, who wrote extensively about government, economics, and literature...
NationalityEnglish
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Date of Birth3 February 1826
Walter Bagehot quotes about
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.
government quality doe
Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity.
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.
cannot english-author great life people
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.