Walter Bagehot Short Quotes

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If you please, sir, tell me what you do not know...

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We are startled to find a universe we did not expect.

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The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend.

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There is no method by which men can be both free and equal.

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An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.

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He describes London like a special correspondent for posterity.

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The natural impulse of the English people is to resist authority.

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The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

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Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

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French is the patois of Europe; English is the language of the world.

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In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.

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To a great experience one thing is essential — an experiencing nature.

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A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.

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A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

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Capital must be propelled by self-interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolence.

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Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and molars. Sydney Smith was a "molar."

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"Maternity," it has been said, "is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion."

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It is an inevitable defect, that bureaucrats will care more for routine than for results.

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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

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Wordsworth, Tennyson and Browning; or, pure, ornate, and grotesque art in English poetry.

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Throughout the greater part of his life George III was a kind of 'consecrated obstruction'.

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The Queen…must sign her own death-warrant if the two Houses unanimously send it up to her.

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Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

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Women—one half the human race at least—care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.

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But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers.

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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

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Cabinet governments educate the nation; the presidential does not educate it, and may corrupt it.

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