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
heart intellect intelligence-and-intellectuals martyr soul truth
He believes, with all his heart and soul and strength, that there is such a thing as truth; he has the soul of a martyr with the intellect of an advocate.
beats conquest english-author hard impact meanness military virtues
Conquest is the missionary of valour, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
mean mind virtuous
Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.
pain ideas innovation
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
meditation-and-yoga long calming
No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
people anomalies bells
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
writing teeth grinder
Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
self interest benevolence
Capital must be propelled by self-interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolence.
life courage war
Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.
music communication silence
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
faces looks impossible
Go ahead and do the impossible. It's worth the look on the faces of those who said you couldn't.
business men mind
Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man more continuously, and more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.
real essence energy
The real essence of work is concentrated energy.
aids cardinals establishment
The cardinal maxim is, that any aid to a present bad Bank is the surest mode of preventing the establishment of a future good Bank.