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All Quotes by author - Walter Bagehot

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

" A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life. "

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

" 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. "

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

" An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. "

" It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations. "

" Life is a school of probability. "

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

" No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation. "

" No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. "

" Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind. "

" One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. "

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

" Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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