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
english-author few good people written
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
cannot english-author great life people
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
people political politics
A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
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.
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.
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.
religious people essentials
The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people.
people should duty
The best security for people's doing their duty is that they should not know anything else to do.
people
All people are most credulous when they are most happy.
book writing people
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
people anomalies bells
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
great king monarchy rights sovereign 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.
beats conquest english-author hard impact meanness military virtues
Conquest is the missionary of valour, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
fear long judgement
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.