Walter Bagehot Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Walter Bagehot quotes and sayings page 2 (author). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 46 we have.
“One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.”
“Life is a school of probability.”
“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 less idle people.”
“Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.”
“Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.”
“So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.”
“The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.”
“All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.”
“A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.”
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