Walter Bagehot
14 quotations
An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it.
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
When great questions end, little parties begin.
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.
Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.
Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.