The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The best security for people's doing their duty is that they should not know anything else to do. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The real essence of work is concentrated energy - people who really have that in a superior degree by nature are independent… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees The greatest pleasure in life… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people that can write know anything. In general an… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Most men of business think "Anyhow this system will probably last my time. It has gone on a long time, and is likely to… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The peculiar essence of our banking system is an unprecedented trust between man and man. And when that trust is much weakened by hidden… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
