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There are 36 quotes for the author Walter Bagehot

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

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

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

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.

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

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

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

History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.

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.

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

Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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