10 insightful quotes by walter bagehot
- The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
- The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
- 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.
- No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
- A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
- Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.
- Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
- No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
- 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.
- The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
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