Quotes Walter Bagehot

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opi...

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings dow...

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

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

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or l...

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wo...

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions sa...

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to ...

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reali...

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

An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: g...

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failing...

An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much...

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of ...

Conquest is the missionary of valour, and the hard impact of...

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a ...

Honor sinks where commerce long prevails....

I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one ...

In every particular state of the world, those nations which ...

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

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; b...

Life is a school of probability....

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become vict...

No great work has ever been produced except after a long int...

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorr...