One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Walter Bagehot Quotes
1826–1877 England
Walter Bagehot (February 3 1826 – March 24 1877) was an English businessman, essayist and journalist who wrote about literature, government and economics.
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Also known as: Bagehot, Walter
67 quotes
Walter Scott : The Critical Heritage (1970)
The English Constitution (1894)
Physics and Politics (1869)
A great assembly is as soon spoiled by over-indulgence as a little child.
The English Constitution (1894)
The English Constitution (1894)
The English Constitution (1894)
A pompous man easily sweeps away the suggestions of those beneath him.
The English Constitution (1894)
The natural impulse of the English people is to resist authority.
The English Constitution (1894)
The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people that can write know anything.
Literary Studies (1879)
A constitutional sovereign must in the common course of government be a man of but common ability.
The English Constitution (1894)
Cabinet governments educate the nation; the presidential does not educate it, and may corrupt it.
The English Constitution (1894)
Women—one half the human race at least—care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.
The English Constitution (1867)
"Maternity," it has been said, "is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion."
Physics and Politics (1869)
Edward Gibbon (1856)
The English Constitution (1894)
The masses are infinitely too ignorant to make much of governing themselves.
The English Constitution (1867)
The trained official hates the rude, untrained public.
The English Constitution (1894)
The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend.
Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market (1873)
France elects its ruler in the streets of Paris.
The English Constitution (1894)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Walter Bagehot (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.