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
men imagination weakness
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.
inspirational funny life
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
mean mind virtuous
Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.
care inevitable routine
It is an inevitable defect, that bureaucrats will care more for routine than for results.
book writing stupidity
In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.
country doubt intellectual
Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt.
lying idle greater
The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend.
men intellectual would-be
The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null.