Quotes from Literary Studies — Walter Bagehot
1826–1877 England
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The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people that can write know anything.
Literary Studies (1879)
To a great experience one thing is essential — an experiencing nature.
Literary Studies (1879)
The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips,
Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair;
The Grecian gods are like the Greeks,
As keen-eyed, cold and fair.
Literary Studies (1879)
The purse strings tie us to our kind.
Literary Studies (1879)
A highly developed moral nature joined to an undeveloped intellectual nature, an undeveloped artistic nature, and a very limited religious nature, is of necessity repulsive. It represents a bit of human nature — a good bit, of course, but a bit only — in disproportionate, unnatural and revolting prominence.
Literary Studies (1879)