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Honor sinks where commerce lo...

Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

A great pleasure in life is d...

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

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

The best reason why Monarchy ...

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

Writers like teeth are divide...

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

All the best stories in the w...

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

The real essence of work is c...

The real essence of work is concentrated energy.

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

The reason why so few good bo...

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

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

The cure for admiring the Hou...

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

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

In every particular state of ...

In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

An inability to stay quiet is...

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

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

An influential member of parl...

An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

The best history is but like ...

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

So long as there are earnest ...

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

Public opinion is a permeatin...

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

So long as war is the main bu...

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

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

The whole history of civiliza...

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

Dullness in matters of govern...

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.

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

A man's mother is his misfort...

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

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

The being without an opinion ...

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

Efficiency in an assembly req...

Efficiency in an assembly requires a solid mass of steady votes; and these are collected by a deferential attachment to particular men, or by a belief in the principles that those men represent, and they are maintained by fear of those men - by the fear that if you vote against them, you may soon yourself have no vote at all.

Walter Bagehot 117 quotes

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