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
people political 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.
air civilization luxury
A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.
progress poison late
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
exaggeration-is interesting elements
An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
knowing people mind
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.
adventure banking caution
Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking.
hurt men essence
The peculiar essence of our banking system is an unprecedented trust between man and man. And when that trust is much weakened by hidden causes, a small accident may greatly hurt it, and a great accident for a moment may almost destroy it.
political house looks
The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.
mistake trying
The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
people cynical stupidity
The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.
magic daylight
We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
strong government world
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.
kings rights three
The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.
women men victim
Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.