Walter Bagehot Quotes

Best Quotes by Walter Bagehot (Top 10)

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.
Walter Bagehot
You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
Walter Bagehot
Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.
Walter Bagehot
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Walter Bagehot
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
Walter Bagehot
A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
Walter Bagehot
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Walter Bagehot
What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
Walter Bagehot

What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
Walter Bagehot
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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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
Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
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The great pleasure of life is doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.
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The real essence of work is concentrated energy.
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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
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Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances.
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Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
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We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
Walter Bagehot
Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
Walter Bagehot
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot