Walter Bagehot Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.”

“We must not let daylight in upon the magic.”

“Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.”

“Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.”

“No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.”

“The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.”

“The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.”

“The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.”

“An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.”

“The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.”