| 24 Famous Quotes by Walter Bagehot
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“Don't worry about life, you're not going to survive it anyway.”
Life Quotes |
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“A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.”
Parliament Quotes |
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“The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips,
Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair;
The Grecian gods are like the Greeks,
As keen-eyed, cold and fair.”
Gods Quotes Source: Literary Studies (II, 410, Ignorance of Man)
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“Speak of the gods as they are.”
Gods Quotes Source: Literary Studies (II, 410, Ignorance of Man)
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“Business is really more agreeable than pleasure: it interests the whole mind ... but it does not look as if it did.”
Business Quotes |
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“Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to think other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.”
Obedience Quotes |
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“We must not let daylight in upon the magic.”
Magic Quotes |
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“An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.”
Quiet Quotes |
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“You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbour.”
Tyranny Quotes |
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“A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
Inspirational Quotes |
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“Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.”
Inspirational Quotes |
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“The notion of a farseeing and despotic statesman, who can lay down plans for ages yet unborn, is a fancy generated by the pride of the human intellect to which facts give no support.”
Politics / government Quotes |
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“A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.”
Politics / government Quotes |
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“An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.”
Politics / government Quotes |
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“A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.”
Politics / government Quotes |
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“The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it.”
Advice / experience / wisdom Quotes |
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“The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.”
Books and reading Quotes |
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“Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.”
Books and reading Quotes |
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“One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.”
Computer / technology / science Quotes |
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“A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.”
Literature Quotes |
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“We must not let daylight in upon the magic.”
Myth Quotes |
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“An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.”
Quiet Quotes |
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“Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.”
Religion / beliefs Quotes |
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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.”
Society Quotes |
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Walter Bagehot Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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