Walter Bagehot Quote

Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
WALTER BAGEHOT

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-d...
WALTER BAGEHOT

An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time ...
WALTER BAGEHOT

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist...
WALTER BAGEHOT

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opi...
WALTER BAGEHOT

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

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink...
WALTER BAGEHOT

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not kn...
WALTER BAGEHOT

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only...
WALTER BAGEHOT

Life is a school of probability.
WALTER BAGEHOT

Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, ...
WALTER BAGEHOT

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

The notion of a farseeing and despotic statesman, who can lay down plans for ages yet unborn, is a f...
WALTER BAGEHOT

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure: it interests the whole mind ... but it does not loo...
WALTER BAGEHOT

A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.
WALTER BAGEHOT

An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.
WALTER BAGEHOT

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level ...
WALTER BAGEHOT

The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights -- the right to be con...
WALTER BAGEHOT

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The m...
WALTER BAGEHOT

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing int...
WALTER BAGEHOT

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at fi...
WALTER BAGEHOT

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

Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has n...
WALTER BAGEHOT

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do...
WALTER BAGEHOT

The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession:...
WALTER BAGEHOT

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

When great questions end, little parties begin.
WALTER BAGEHOT

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
WALTER BAGEHOT

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being ...
WALTER BAGEHOT

War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminar...
WALTER BAGEHOT

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of t...
WALTER BAGEHOT

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism -- despotism during the campaign...
WALTER BAGEHOT

What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
WALTER BAGEHOT

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
WALTER BAGEHOT

We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
WALTER BAGEHOT

An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtu...
WALTER BAGEHOT

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

History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost ...
WALTER BAGEHOT

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink...
WALTER BAGEHOT

In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the o...
WALTER BAGEHOT

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are gov...
WALTER BAGEHOT

The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as ...
WALTER BAGEHOT

Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell ho...
WALTER BAGEHOT

A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or off...
WALTER BAGEHOT

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
WALTER BAGEHOT

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
WALTER BAGEHOT

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not kn...
WALTER BAGEHOT

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
WALTER BAGEHOT

Don't worry about life, you're not going to survive it anyway.
WALTER BAGEHOT

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

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to thi...
WALTER BAGEHOT

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

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

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House ...
WALTER BAGEHOT

The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.
WALTER BAGEHOT

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

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes...
WALTER BAGEHOT

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do...
WALTER BAGEHOT

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
WALTER BAGEHOT

Speak of the gods as they are.
WALTER BAGEHOT

The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair; The Grecian gods are like th...
WALTER BAGEHOT

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
WALTER BAGEHOT

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
WALTER BAGEHOT

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.
WALTER BAGEHOT

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
WALTER BAGEHOT

The greatest mistake is trying to be m ore agreeable than you can be.
WALTER BAGEHOT

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the g...
WALTER BAGEHOT

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next...
WALTER BAGEHOT

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your ne...
WALTER BAGEHOT

Money is economic power
WALTER BAGEHOT

The soldier—that is, the great soldier—of to-day is not a romantic animal, dashing at forlorn ho...
WALTER BAGEHOT

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-d...
WALTER BAGEHOT

To a great experience one thing is essential, an experiencing nature. It is not enough to have oppor...
WALTER BAGEHOT

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what other people say you can not do.
WALTER BAGEHOT

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

Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevai...
WALTER BAGEHOT

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

Of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers.
WALTER BAGEHOT

The beginning of civilization is marked by an intense legality; that legality is the very condition ...
WALTER BAGEHOT

Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutio...
WALTER BAGEHOT

Life is a school of probability
WALTER BAGEHOT

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even ...
WALTER BAGEHOT

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

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything
WALTER BAGEHOT

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

I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing G...
WALTER BAGEHOT

The real essence of work is concentrated energy
WALTER BAGEHOT

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault
WALTER BAGEHOT

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind
WALTER BAGEHOT

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

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
WALTER BENJAMIN

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
WALTER CRONKITE

I look forward to making tangible and inspirational contributions to the Houston Technology Center&#...
WALTER O'BRIEN

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memori...
WALTER BENJAMIN

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
WALTER BENJAMIN

I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poure...
WALTER BECKER

There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that ...
WALTER BECKER

We have been fortunate enough to do something that has always been out of the mainstream and yet hav...
WALTER BECKER

All our wives are experimental psychologists.
WALTER BECKER

If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I...
WALTER BECKER

I always look for the weirdest note to land on. I felt that that was the least I could do for the gr...
WALTER BECKER

From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show ...
WALTER BECKER

That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the mid...
WALTER BECKER

You have a kid, and it's like, 'He's gotta go to college! Gotta have some clothes!'
WALTER BECKER

'8 Miles to Pancake Day' is a reconciliation of the classic space-time dilemma.
WALTER BECKER

It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its co...
WALTER BECKER

There was a film called 'FM,' and we were asked to do the title song. And I said, 'Does ...
WALTER BECKER

'Deacon Blues' was special for me. It's the only time I remember mixing a record all day...
WALTER BECKER

The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much...
WALTER BECKER

There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
WALTER BECKER

I spent a couple of years not doing any music or anything, just here in Hawaii trying to get healthy...
WALTER BECKER

I'm not interested in a rock/jazz fusion.
WALTER BECKER

It's great fun to play with a really good band.
WALTER BECKER

People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you e...
WALTER BECKER

Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
WALTER BECKER

Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could ...
WALTER BECKER

When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's...
WALTER BECKER

My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of th...
WALTER BECKER

I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and end...
WALTER BECKER

I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
WALTER BECKER

It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause...
WALTER ANNENBERG

I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty.
WALTER ANNENBERG

I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.
WALTER ANNENBERG

Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minu...
WALTER ANNENBERG

God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
WALTER ANNENBERG

You will not be satisfied unless you are contributing something to or for the benefit of others.
WALTER ANNENBERG

What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.
WALTER ANNENBERG

The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energi...
WALTER ANNENBERG

Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
WALTER ANNENBERG

I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.
WALTER ANNENBERG

Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.
WALTER ANNENBERG

Accomplish something every day of your life.
WALTER ANNENBERG

People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.
WALTER ANNENBERG

The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.
WALTER ANNENBERG

In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.
WALTER ANNENBERG

Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.
WALTER ANNENBERG

My country has been very good to me; I must be good to my country.
WALTER ANNENBERG

Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually en...
WALTER ANNENBERG

Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable late...
WALTER ANNENBERG

Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.
WALTER ANNENBERG

The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
WALTER ANNENBERG

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible f...
WALTER ANDERSON

Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.
WALTER ANDERSON

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, ne...
WALTER ANDERSON

I'm not afraid to learn from my coaches.
WALTER ALSTON

I put myself through college playing pool.
WALTER ALSTON

I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.
WALTER ALSTON

The toughest thing about managing is knowing your personnel and what it can give you under all condi...
WALTER ALSTON

I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.
WALTER ALSTON

I've won plenty of games by knowing when to take out my pitcher; whom to replace him with; or ho...
WALTER ALSTON

I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; ...
ULRICH WALTER

Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I...
ULRICH WALTER

Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.
WALTER WRISTON

She's been on more laps than a napkin.
WALTER WINCHELL

Nothing recedes like success.
WALTER WINCHELL

Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.
WALTER WINCHELL

Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery.
WALTER WINCHELL

The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.
WALTER WINCHELL

The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
WALTER WINCHELL

Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.
WALTER WINCHELL

I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.
WALTER WINCHELL

What I would like to be remembered for is that Walter Washington changed the spirit of the people of...
WALTER WASHINGTON

Mine has been a concern for the people, a concern to maintain stability, a concern to get people wor...
WALTER WASHINGTON

I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.
WALTER WAGER

I always liked spy stories.
WALTER WAGER

I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.
WALTER WAGER

In France, I learned about wine and cheese.
WALTER WAGER

I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.
WALTER WAGER

The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, a...
WALTER ULBRICHT

May we soon enjoy the fruits of our labor in a peaceful and united Germany.
WALTER ULBRICHT

The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize pr...
WALTER ULBRICHT

The more you participate in our common endeavors, the more successful your work in the factory, mine...
WALTER ULBRICHT

The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the fe...
WALTER ULBRICHT

When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its det...
WALTER ULBRICHT

The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democrati...
WALTER ULBRICHT

In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
WALTER ULBRICHT

The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individuall...
WALTER ULBRICHT

Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan ...
WALTER ULBRICHT

The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a f...
WALTER ULBRICHT

The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the vict...
WALTER ULBRICHT

Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for pe...
WALTER ULBRICHT

This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
WALTER ULBRICHT

It is the most important contribution we can make to speeding up reunification.
WALTER ULBRICHT

Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obs...
WALTER ULBRICHT

Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.
WALTER ULBRICHT

The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in ...
WALTER SMITH

There are people for whom Rangers Football Club is their entire way of life.
WALTER SMITH

From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football ...
WALTER SMITH

Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
WALTER SMITH

I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attent...
WALTER SMITH

If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and mana...
WALTER SMITH

Whether people like it or not, you have to say the Old Firm are a major part of Scottish football. I...
WALTER SMITH

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
WALTER SMITH

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual he...
WALTER SCOTT

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out o...
WALTER SCOTT

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
WALTER SCOTT

Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues he...
WALTER SCOTT

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
WALTER SCOTT

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
WALTER SCOTT

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

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Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

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